A C-Repeat Binding Factor Transcriptional Activator (CBF/DREB1) from European Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) Induces Freezing Tolerance When Expressed in Arabidopsis thaliana

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Oakenfull, Rachael J ^a   Baxter, Robert ^a   Knight, Marc R ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REPEAT BINDING FACTOR TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATOR; PLANT DNA; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE; FREEZING TOLERANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; LINGONBERRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GROWTH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA EXTRACTION; VACCINIUM; VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS; VACCINIUM ULIGINOSUM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL NUCLEUS; FREEZING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN STABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VACCINIUM; VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS; VACCINIUM VITIS-IDAEA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; VACCINIUM; VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS; VACCINIUM ULIGINOSUM; VACCINIUM VITIS-IDAEA;

EID: 84872566461     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054119     Document Type: Article

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