Improvement of seed yields under boron-limiting conditions through overexpression of BOR1, a boron transporter for xylem loading, in Arabidopsis thaliana

Plant Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1084-1091

  Miwa, Kyoko ^a,b   Takano, Junpei ^b   Fujiwara, Toru ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; BOR1; Boron deficiency; Preferential translocation; Root to shoot translocation; Tracer experiments

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; SEED; SOILS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BOR1; BORON DEFICIENCY; PREFERENTIAL TRANSLOCATION; ROOT-TO-SHOOT TRANSLOCATION; TRACER EXPERIMENTS;

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING;

ANTIPORTER; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BOR1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; BORON;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLANT SEED;

ANTIPORTERS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; BORON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; SEEDS;

AGRICULTURE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; SEEDS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 33745216263     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2006.02763.x     Document Type: Article

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