Overexpression of ethylene response factor TERF2 confers cold tolerance in rice seedlings

Transgenic Research

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 857-866

  Tian, Yun ^a,b,d   Zhang, Haiwen ^a,c   Pan, Xiaowu ^a   Chen, Xiaoliang ^a   Zhang, Zhijin ^a,c   Lu, Xiangyang ^b,d   Huang, Rongfeng ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b HUNAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c National Key Facility of Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement   (China)

^d Hunan Agricultural Bioengineering Research Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Cold; Oryza sativa; Reactive oxygen species; TERF2; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTE; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; MALONALDEHYDE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING FACTOR 2;

ARTICLE; COLD SHOCK RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; RICE; SEEDLING; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

COLD-SHOCK RESPONSE; ELECTROLYTES; ETHYLENES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MALONDIALDEHYDE; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SEEDLING; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING PROTEIN 2;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NICOTIANA TABACUM; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 79960440691     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11248-010-9463-9     Document Type: Article

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