Cold-inducible expression of AZI1 and its function in improvement of freezing tolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana and Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Journal of Plant Physiology

Volumn 168, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1576-1587

  Xu, Zhi Yan ^a   Zhang, Xin ^a   Schläppi, Michael ^b   Xu, Zi Qin ^a  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Marquette University   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; AZI1; Cold inducible; Homozygous azi1 mutant; Overexpression; RNAi; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; AZI1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ELECTROLYTE; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT RNA;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FREEZING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT IMMUNITY; PLANT LEAF; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ELECTROLYTES; FREEZING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLANT IMMUNITY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 79959379517     PISSN: 01761617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2011.01.023     Document Type: Article

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