Expression of wild soybean WRKY20 in Arabidopsis enhances drought toleranc

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2155-2169

  Luo, Xiao ^a,b   Xi Bai, ^a   Sun, Xiaoli ^a   Zhu, Dan ^a   Liu, Baohui ^b   Ji, Wei ^a   Cai, Hua ^a   Cao, Lei ^a   Wu, Jing ^a   Hu, Mengran ^a   Liu, Xin ^a   Tang, Lili ^a   Zhu, Yanming ^a  

^a NORTHEAST AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

ABA; drought; stomata; wax; wild soybean; WRKY

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; SOYBEAN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; WAX;

ABA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DNA MICROARRAY; DROUGHT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STOMA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEEDLING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMATA; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WILD SOYBEAN; WRKY.;

ABA; DROUGHT; STOMATA; WAX; WILD SOYBEAN; WRKY.;

ABSCISIC ACID; ARABIDOPSIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROUGHTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GERMINATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLANT STOMATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEEDLING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOYBEAN PROTEINS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84877971470     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ert073     Document Type: Article

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