SCOF-1-expressing transgenic sweetpotato plants show enhanced tolerance to low-temperature stress

Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1436-1441

  Kim, Yun Hee ^a   Kim, Myoung Duck ^a   Park, Sung Chul ^a   Yang, Kyoung Sil ^a   Jeong, Jae Cheol ^a   Lee, Haeng Soon ^a   Kwak, Sang Soo ^a  

^a Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Low temperature stress; Soybean cold inducible zinc finger protein; Stress inducible promoter; Transgenic sweetpotato

Indexed keywords

VEGETABLE PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; COLD; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; PROMOTER REGION; SOYBEAN; SWEET POTATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; COLD TEMPERATURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PLANT; IPOMOEA BATATAS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SOYBEANS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ZINC FINGERS;

GLYCINE MAX; IPOMOEA BATATAS;

EID: 80054769523     PISSN: 09819428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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