Freezing-sensitive tomato has a functional CBF cold response pathway, but a CBF regulon that differs from that of freezing-tolerant Arabidopsis

Plant Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 905-919

  Zhang, Xin ^a,d   Fowler, Sarah G ^a   Cheng, Hongmei ^b   Lou, Yigong ^c   Rhee, Seung Y ^c   Stockinger, Eric J ^b   Thomashow, Michael F ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Cbf regulon; CBF DREB1; Cold acclimation; Microarray analysis; Tomato

Indexed keywords

DNA; FREEZING; GENES; PROTEINS;

ARABIDOPSIS; COLD ACCLIMATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DREB1A PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; DREB2A PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PRIMER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FREEZING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOMATO; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLD; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FREEZING; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REGULON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

FREEZING; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS; PROTEINS;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; LYCOPERSICON; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 4944265696     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2004.02176.x     Document Type: Article

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