Patenting drought tolerance in organisms

Recent Patents on DNA and Gene Sequences

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 16-25

  Somvanshi, Vishal S ^a  

^a Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Animals; Dehydration stress; Desiccation stress; Drought tolerance; Nucleic acid sequences; Osmotic stress; Patents; Plants; Proteins; Stress response genes

Indexed keywords

C REPEAT SEQUENCE BINDING FACTOR; DEHYDRATION RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING FACTOR; PROLINE; PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

CELL MEMBRANE; CELL TURGOR; DEHYDRATION; DESICCATION; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FLUID BALANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMOTIC STRESS; PATENT; PEST MANAGEMENT; PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; DROUGHT; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; LEGAL ASPECT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; DEHYDRATION; DROUGHTS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PATENTS AS TOPIC;

EID: 60549088104     PISSN: 18722156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/187221509787236228     Document Type: Review

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