Overexpression of Arabidopsis and Rice stress genes' inducible transcription factor confers drought and salinity tolerance to rice

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 579-586

  Datta, Karabi ^a   Baisakh, Niranjan ^b   Ganguly, Moumita ^a   Krishnan, Sellapan ^c   Shinozaki, Kazuko Yamaguchi ^d   Datta, Swapan K ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^c GOA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e INDIAN COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Osmotic stress tolerance; Rice; Stress inducible promoter; Transcription factor; Transformation

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DREB1A PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DEHYDRATION; DROUGHT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; HALOPHYTE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; RICE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DEHYDRATION; DROUGHTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; ORYZA SATIVA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SALT-TOLERANT PLANTS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

AGROBACTERIUM; ARABIDOPSIS; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 84860433074     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2012.00688.x     Document Type: Article

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