Transcription factors as tools to engineer enhanced drought stress tolerance in plants

Biotechnology Progress

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 297-306

  Hussain, Syed Sarfraz ^a   Kayani, Mahmood Akhtar ^b   Amjad, Muhammad ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Department of Physics   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Metabolic engineering; Transcription factors; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC STRESS; CIS-ACTING ELEMENT; CROP PLANTS; CROP PRODUCTIVITY; DROUGHT STRESS; DROUGHT STRESS RESPONSE; DROUGHT STRESS TOLERANCE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC PATHWAYS; MULTIPLE PATHWAYS; NATIVE PLANTS; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT STRESS; PRESENT STATUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION NETWORKS; STRESS SIGNALS; STRESS TOLERANCE; STRESS-RESPONSIVE GENE; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRANSGENIC CROPS; TRANSGENIC PLANTS;

CROPS; DROUGHT; GENES; METABOLISM; PRODUCTIVITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

GENETICALLY MODIFIED PLANTS;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; CROP; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ACCLIMATIZATION; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79954425381     PISSN: 87567938     EISSN: 15206033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/btpr.514     Document Type: Article

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