Improved drought tolerance without undesired side effects in transgenic plants producing trehalose

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 371-386

  Karim, Sazzad ^a,g   Aronsson, Henrik ^b   Ericson, Henrik ^a   Pirhonen, Minna ^c   Leyman, Barbara ^d   Welin, Björn ^e   Mäntylä, Einar ^f   Palva, E Tapio ^c   Van Dijck, Patrick ^d   Holmström, Kjell Ove ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e Dpto A   (Argentina)

^f ORF Genetics   (Iceland)

^g SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Arabidopsis; Improved stress tolerance; Tobacco; Trehalose; Trehalose 6 Phosphate

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC STRESS; ARABIDOPSIS; IMPROVED STRESS TOLERANCE;

DROUGHT; GROWTH KINETICS; SACCHARIFICATION; SUGAR (SUCROSE); TOBACCO;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHATASE; RAB PROTEIN; RAB18 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TREHALOSE; TREHALOSE 6 PHOSPHATE SYNTHETASE; TREHALOSE-6-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; TREHALOSE-PHOSPHATASE; TREHALOSEPHOSPHATASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHLOROPLAST; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHLOROPLASTS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TOBACCO; TREHALOSE; WATER;

DROUGHT; GROWTH; PLANTS; TOBACCO; TREHALOSES;

ARABIDOPSIS; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 34249786589     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-007-9159-6     Document Type: Article

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