Enhanced drought tolerance in transgenic Leymus chinensis plants with constitutively expressed wheat TaLEA 3

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 313-319

  Wang, Lijuan ^a,b   Li, Xiaofeng ^a   Chen, Shuangyan ^a   Liu, Gongshe ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Drought resistance; Late embryogenesis abundant genes; Leymus chinensis; Transformation; Water efficiency; Wheat gene

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; ALDEHYDES; DROUGHT; GENES; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); GROWTH (MATERIALS); WATER CONTENT;

DROUGHT RESISTANCE; LATE EMBRYOGENESIS ABUNDANT GENES; LEYMUS CHINENSIS; TRANSFORMATION; WATER EFFICIENCY; WHEAT GENE;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

LATE EMBRYOGENESIS ABUNDANT PROTEIN, PLANT; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DROUGHT; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WHEAT;

DROUGHTS; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POACEAE; TRITICUM;

AGROBACTERIUM; LEYMUS CHINENSIS; RHIZOBIUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 58149196358     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: 15736776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-008-9864-5     Document Type: Article

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