Clustered metallothionein genes are co-regulated in rice and ectopic expression of OsMT1e-P confers multiple abiotic stress tolerance in tobacco via ROS scavenging

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kumar, Gautam ^a   Kushwaha, Hemant R ^a   Panjabi Sabharwal, Vaishali ^a   Kumari, Sumita ^a   Joshi, Rohit ^a   Karan, Ratna ^a   Mittal, Shweta ^a   Pareek, Sneh L S ^b   Pareek, Ashwani ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

CYSTEINE; METALLOTHIONEIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SCAVENGER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HALOPHYTE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; PLANT SEED; RICE; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYSTEINE; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; METALLOTHIONEIN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; ORYZA SATIVA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SALT-TOLERANT PLANTS; SEEDS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TOBACCO;

EID: 84863596738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-12-107     Document Type: Article

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