Improving plant stress tolerance and yield production: Is the tonoplast aquaporin SlTIP2;2 a key to isohydric to anisohydric conversion?

New Phytologist

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 651-661

  Sade, Nir ^a   Vinocur, Basia J ^b   Diber, Alex ^b   Shatil, Arava ^a   Ronen, Gil ^b   Nissan, Hagit ^a   Wallach, Rony ^a   Karchi, Hagai ^b   Moshelion, Menachem ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Evogene Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anisohydric; Aquaporin; Isohydric; Osmotic water permeability coefficient (Pf); Stress tolerance; Tonoplast; Transpiration; Water permeability

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TONOPLAST INTRINSIC PROTEIN, PLANT; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; WATER;

BIOASSAY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENE EXPRESSION; OSMOSIS; PERMEABILITY; PLANT WATER RELATIONS; PROTEIN; SELECTIVE BREEDING; STRESS RESISTANCE; TRANSPIRATION; VEGETABLE; YIELD RESPONSE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CELL FRACTIONATION; DRUG EFFECT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OSMOSIS; PERMEABILITY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOMASS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OSMOSIS; PERMEABILITY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; WATER;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM;

EID: 58249119569     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02689.x     Document Type: Article

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