An ethylene response factor (ERF5) promoting adaptation to drought and salt tolerance in tomato

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 349-360

  Pan, Yu ^a,b   Seymour, Graham B ^b   Lu, Chungui ^b   Hu, Zongli ^a   Chen, Xuqing ^c   Chen, Guoping ^a  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c Beijing Agro Biotechnology Research Center   (China)

Author keywords

Drought stress; Ethylene response factor; Salt stress; SlERF5; Solanum lycopersicum

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PHYTOHORMONE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; WATER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DROUGHT; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALT TOLERANCE; TEMPERATURE; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROUGHTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALT-TOLERANCE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 84855842017     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-011-1170-3     Document Type: Article

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