Specific roles of α- and γ-tocopherol in abiotic stress responses of transgenic tobacco

Plant Physiology

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1720-1738

  Abbasi, Ali Reza ^a   Hajirezaei, Mohamad ^b   Hofius, Daniel ^b,c   Sonnewald, Uwe ^a   Voll, Lars M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOSYNTHESIS; TISSUE; TOBACCO; VITAMINS;

LIPOPHILIC ANTIOXIDANTS; METHYL VIOLOGEN TREATMENTS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC ORGANISMS; TOCOPHEROL ACCUMULATION;

PHENOLS;

PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT TISSUES; TOBACCO; TOCOPHEROLS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 34248200744     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.106.094771     Document Type: Article

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