Multilevel genomic analysis of the response of transcripts, enzyme activities and metabolites in Arabidopsis rosettes to a progressive decrease of temperature in the non-freezing range

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 518-547

  Usadel, Björn ^a   Bläsing, Oliver E ^a   Gibon, Yves ^a   Poree, Fabien ^a   Höhne, Melanie ^a   Günter, Manuela ^a   Trethewey, Richard ^b   Kamlage, Beate ^b   Poorter, Hendrik ^c   Stitt, Mark ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Metanomics GmbH   (Germany)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Chilling; Expression arrays; Metabolite profile

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CARBON; NITROGEN;

COLD TOLERANCE; COMPENSATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERMENTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERB; METABOLISM; METABOLITE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ADAPTATION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COLD; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CARBON; COLD; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMICS; NITROGEN; PLANT LEAVES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 40749151912     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2007.01763.x     Document Type: Article

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