Novel cysteine-rich peptides from Digitaria ciliaris and Oryza sativa enhance tolerance to cadmium by limiting its cellular accumulation

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 106-117

  Kuramata, Masato ^a,c   Masuya, Shuichi ^a   Takahashi, Yoshihiro ^a   Kitagawa, Etsuko ^b   Inoue, Chihiro ^a   Ishikawa, Satoru ^c   Youssefian, Shohab ^d   Kusano, Tomonobu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Forestry and Fisheries Research Center   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d AKITA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Cysteine rich peptide; Digitaria ciliaris; Oryza sativa; Tolerance; Transgenic plant

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM CHLORIDE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PLANT RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DIGITARIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RICE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; CADMIUM CHLORIDE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIGITARIA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, PLANT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; DIGITARIA CILIARIS; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 58449136956     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcn175     Document Type: Article

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