Dissecting Rice Polyamine Metabolism under Controlled Long-Term Drought Stress

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Do, Phuc Thi ^a   Degenkolbe, Thomas ^a   Erban, Alexander ^a   Heyer, Arnd G ^b   Kopka, Joachim ^a   Köhl, Karin I ^a   Hincha, Dirk K ^a   Zuther, Ellen ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ARGININE; ARGININE DECARBOXYLASE; ORNITHINE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; POLYAMINE; PROLINE; PUTRESCINE; SPERMIDINE; SPERMINE;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTIVAR; DROUGHT STRESS; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC QUANTUM YIELD; PLANT GENOME; PLANT METABOLISM; PLANT PARAMETERS; POLYAMINE SYNTHESIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICE;

DROUGHTS; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; ORYZA SATIVA; POLYAMINES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

JAPONICA; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 84875989225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060325     Document Type: Article

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