Improving freezing tolerance of transgenic tobacco expressing sucrose: Sucrose 1-fructosyltransferase gene from Lactuca sativa

Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-48

  Li, Hui Juan ^a   Yang, Ai Fang ^b   Zhang, Xue Cheng ^a   Gao, Feng ^b   Zhang, Ju Ren ^b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Freezing tolerance; Lactuca sativa; Ls1 SST; RACE; Transgenic tobacco

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; ELECTROLYTES; ENZYMES; SUGAR (SUCROSE); TOBACCO;

FREEZING TOLERANCE; LACTUCA SATIVA; TRANSGENIC TOBACCO;

GENE EXPRESSION;

BACTERIA; ELECTROLYTES; ENZYMES; FREEZING; SUCROSE; TOBACCO;

AGROBACTERIUM; LACTUCA; LACTUCA SATIVA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 34247198886     PISSN: 01676857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11240-007-9213-8     Document Type: Article

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