Enhanced cold tolerance in transgenic tobacco expressing a chloroplast ω-3 fatty acid desaturase gene under the control of a cold-inducible promoter

Planta

Volumn 223, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1090-1100

  Khodakovskaya, Mariya ^a,b   McAvoy, Richard ^a   Peters, Jeanne ^c   Wu, Hao ^a   Li, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY AND SOIL SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloroplast ultrastructure; Cold tolerance; Cold induced expression; Desaturase; Fatty acid composition; Tolerance to cold and dark environment; Transgenic tobacco

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPLAST DNA; FATTY ACID; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID DESATURASE; OMEGA-3 FATTY ACID DESATURASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; COLD; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PROMOTER REGION; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPLASTS; COLD; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; FATTY ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; LIGHT; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TOBACCO;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 33645224249     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-005-0161-4     Document Type: Article

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