Engineered drought tolerance in tomato plants is reflected in chlorophyll fluorescence emission

Plant Science

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 79-86

  Mishra, Kumud Bandhu ^a   Iannacone, Rina ^b   Petrozza, Angelo ^b   Mishra, Anamika ^a,c   Armentano, Nadia ^b   La Vecchia, Giovanna ^b   Trtílek, Martin ^d   Cellini, Francesco ^b   Nedbal, Ladislav ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^b Metapontum Agrobios ^*  (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^d Photon Systems Instruments   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll fluorescence; Drought; High throughput screening; Solanum lycopersicum; Transcription factor; Transgenic plant

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DROUGHT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STOMA; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CHLOROPHYLL; DEHYDRATION; DROUGHTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT STOMATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM;

EID: 82155171357     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2011.03.022     Document Type: Article

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