Programmed cell death and adaptation: Two different types of abiotic stress response in a unicellular chlorophyte

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 884-895

  Zuppini, Anna ^a   Gerotto, Caterina ^a   Baldan, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chlorella saccharophila; Heat shock; Programmed cell death; Salt stress; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADAPTATION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHLORELLA; DNA FRAGMENTATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SALINITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CHLORELLA; DNA FRAGMENTATION; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; SALINITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

'CHLORELLA' SACCHAROPHILA; ALGAE; CHLORELLA (CHLORELLALES); CHLORELLA (PRASIOLALES); CHLORELLA (UNCLASSIFIED CHLOROPHYCEAE); CHLORELLA (UNCLASSIFIED TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE); CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; METAZOA;

EID: 77953574588     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcq069     Document Type: Article

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