Alternative oxidase 1 (Aox1) gene expression in roots of Medicago truncatula is a genotype-specific component of salt stress tolerance

Journal of Plant Physiology

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 111-114

  Mhadhbi, Haythem ^a   Fotopoulos, Vasileios ^b,e   Mylona, Photini V ^c   Jebara, Moez ^a   Aouani, Mohamed Elarbi ^a   Polidoros, Alexios N ^b,d  

^a CENTRE DE BIOTECHNOLOGIE DE BORJ CÉDRIA   (Tunisia)

^b INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^e CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Alternative oxidase; Functional markers; Gene expression; Medicago truncatula; Salt stress; Tolerance behaviour

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE OXIDASE; ANTIOXIDANT; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; BREEDING; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALT TOLERANCE;

ALLELES; ANTIOXIDANTS; BREEDING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALT-TOLERANCE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA;

EID: 84872424424     PISSN: 01761617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2012.08.017     Document Type: Article

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