Functional characterization of three water deficit stress-induced genes in tobacco and Arabidopsis: An approach based on gene down regulation

Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-44

  Senthil Kumar, Muthappa ^a,b   Hema, Ramanna ^a   Suryachandra, Thumu Rao ^a   Ramegowda, H V ^a   Gopalakrishna, Ramaswamy ^a   Rama, Narasimhan ^a   Udayakumar, Makarla ^a   Mysore, Kirankumar S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquired and basal tolerance; Arabidopsis mutants; CcoAOMT; Drought; Plant abiotic stress functional genomics; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; CAFFEOYL COA O METHYLTRANSFERASE; CAFFEOYL-COA O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; CHLOROPHYLL; FLAVONOL 3 O GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; FLAVONOL 3-O-GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; DEHYDRATION; DESICCATION; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATION; PEANUT; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT GENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SALINITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOBACCO;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; CELL SURVIVAL; CHLOROPHYLL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEHYDRATION; DESICCATION; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MUTATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SALINITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TOBACCO;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 72149086404     PISSN: 09819428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2009.09.005     Document Type: Article

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