Abiotic stress and ABA-inducible Group 4 LEA from Brassica napus plays a key role in salt and drought tolerance

Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 137-145

  Dalal, Monika ^a   Tayal, Deepti ^a   Chinnusamy, Viswanathan ^b   Bansal, Kailash C ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE ON PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Abscisic acid; Brassica species; Group 4 LEA; Transgenic Arabidopsis

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC STRESS; ABSCISIC ACID; BRASSICA SPECIES; GROUP 4 LEA; TRANSGENIC ARABIDOPSIS;

ACIDS; AGRONOMY; DROUGHT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HISTOLOGY; PROTEINS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ABSCISIC ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LATE EMBRYOGENESIS ABUNDANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN LEA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ABIOTIC STRESS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; FLOWER; LEAF TISSUE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMOTIC STRESS; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAPESEED; SALT TOLERANCE; UPREGULATION; VEGETATIVE STAGE;

ABSCISIC ACID; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BRASSICA NAPUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SALT-TOLERANCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; BRASSICA; BRASSICA NAPUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 57949100310     PISSN: 01681656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2008.09.014     Document Type: Article

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