Expression of a fungal sterol desaturase improves tomato drought tolerance, pathogen resistance and nutritional quality

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kamthan, Ayushi ^a   Kamthan, Mohan ^a   Azam, Mohammad ^b   Chakraborty, Niranjan ^a   Chakraborty, Subhra ^a   Datta, Asis ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENOME RESEARCH   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; OXIDOREDUCTASE; STEROL DELTA 5 DESATURASE; STEROL DELTA-5 DESATURASE; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DROUGHT; ENZYMOLOGY; FLAMMULINA; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PLANT LEAF; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DROUGHTS; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; FLAMMULINA; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; IRON; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUTRITIVE VALUE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84871798181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00951     Document Type: Article

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