Heterologous expression of ATG8c from soybean confers tolerance to nitrogen deficiency and increases yield in Arabidopsis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Xia, Tongmei ^a   Xiao, Dong ^a   Liu, Dong ^a   Chai, Wenting ^a   Gong, Qingqiu ^a   Wang, Ning Ning ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN; PROTEIN ATG8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ATG8C GENE; CALLUS (PLANT); CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NITROGEN DEFICIENCY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT CELL; PLANT GENE; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT YIELD; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOYBEAN; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SOYBEANS;

ARABIDOPSIS; GLYCINE MAX; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84861307218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037217     Document Type: Article

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