Identification of drought-response genes and a study of their expression during sucrose accumulation and water deficit in sugarcane culms

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Iskandar, Hayati M ^a,b,c   Casu, Rosanne E ^a   Fletcher, Andrew T ^b   Schmidt, Susanne ^b   Xu, Jingsheng ^a,d   Maclean, Donald J ^b   Manners, John M ^a   Bonnett, Graham D ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Biotechnology Research Institute for Estate Crops   (Indonesia)

^d FUJIAN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; SUCROSE; WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; DROUGHT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; PLANT STEM; PLANT STOMA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUGARCANE;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOMASS; DROUGHTS; FRUCTOSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT STEMS; PLANT STOMATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHARUM; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SUCROSE; WATER;

EID: 78651269502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-11-12     Document Type: Article

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