Enhanced tolerance against osmotic stresses of Escherichia coli cells expressing soybean KS-type dehydrin

Genes and Genomics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 319-327

  Chung, Eunsook ^a   Cho, Chang Woo ^a   Kim, Kee Young ^b   Kim, Kyoungmi ^a   So, Hyun Ah ^a   Lee, Seon Woo ^a   Lee, Young Choon ^a   Kim, Kyoung Sook ^a   Chung, Young Soo ^a   Lee, Jai Heon ^a  

^a Dong A University   (South Korea)

^b National Institute of Animal Science   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Abscisic acid; Dehydrin; Osmotic stress; RNA expression; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 51749108637     PISSN: 19769571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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