Overexpression of a new Cys2/His2 zinc finger protein ZmZF1 from maize confers salt and drought tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis

Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 117-124

  Huai, Junling ^a,b   Zheng, Jun ^a   Wang, Guoying ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cys2 His2 zinc finger; Maize; Salt and drought stress; Transgenic Arabidopsis

Indexed keywords

35S PROMOTER; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; CYS2/HIS2 ZINC FINGER; DROUGHT STRESS; DROUGHT TOLERANCES; FULL-LENGTH CDNA; FUSION PROTEINS; MAIZE; MAIZE SEEDLINGS; OVER-EXPRESSION; SALT STRESSS; TRANSGENIC ARABIDOPSIS; TRANSIENT EXPRESSION ANALYSIS; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC-FINGER PROTEIN GENE;

AGRONOMY; DROUGHT; PLANTS (BOTANY); TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ZINC;

ARABIDOPSIS; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 70350205625     PISSN: 01676857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11240-009-9582-2     Document Type: Article

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