Bacterial RNA chaperones confer abiotic stress tolerance in plants and improved grain yield in maize under water-limited conditions

Plant Physiology

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 446-455

  Castiglioni, Paolo ^a,b   Warner, Dave ^a   Bensen, Robert J ^a   Anstrom, Don C ^a   Harrison, Jay ^a   Stoecker, Martin ^a   Abad, Mark ^a   Kumar, Ganesh ^a,b   Salvador, Sara ^a   D'Ordine, Robert ^a   Navarro, Santiago ^a   Back, Stephanie ^a   Fernandes, Mary ^a   Targolli, Jayaprakash ^a   Dasgupta, Santanu ^a,b   Bonin, Christopher ^a   Luethy, Michael H ^a   Heard, Jacqueline E ^a  

^a MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

^b Monsanto Company ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ZEA MAYS;

BACTERIAL RNA; CHAPERONE; WATER;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIA; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; RNA, BACTERIAL; WATER;

EID: 48549093393     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.108.118828     Document Type: Review

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