The assembly of metals chelation by thiols and vacuolar compartmentalization conferred increased tolerance to and accumulation of cadmium and arsenic in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 199-200, Issue , 2012, Pages 309-313

  Guo, Jiangbo ^a,b   Xu, Wenzhong ^a   Ma, Mi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Chelation; Phytochelatin synthase; Phytoremediation; Transgenic; Vacuolar compartmentalization

Indexed keywords

BAKER'S YEAST; OVER-EXPRESSION; PHYTOCHELATIN SYNTHASE; PHYTOREMEDIATION; TOXIC METALS; TRANSGENIC ARABIDOPSIS; TRANSGENIC LINES; TRANSGENICS; VACUOLAR COMPARTMENTALIZATION; WILD TYPES;

ARSENIC; BIOREMEDIATION; CADMIUM; CHELATION; DETOXIFICATION; GENES; HEAVY METALS; METALS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; CADMIUM; THIOL;

ADAPTATION; ALCOHOL; ARSENIC; BIOACCUMULATION; CADMIUM; CHELATION; COMPARTMENTALIZATION; DETOXIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HERB; TOLERANCE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; YEAST;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CHELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; METAL TOLERANCE; NONHUMAN; PHYTOREMEDIATION; TRANSGENICS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ARABIDOPSIS; ARSENIC; BASE SEQUENCE; CADMIUM; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CHELATING AGENTS; DNA PRIMERS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; VACUOLES;

ALLIUM SATIVUM; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 83955161113     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: 18733336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2011.11.008     Document Type: Article

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