A Wheat WRKY Transcription Factor TaWRKY10 Confers Tolerance to Multiple Abiotic Stresses in Transgenic Tobacco

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Chen ^a   Deng, Pengyi ^a   Chen, Liulin ^a   Wang, Xiatian ^a   Ma, Hui ^a   Hu, Wei ^a   Yao, Ningcong ^a   Feng, Ying ^a   Chai, Ruihong ^a   Yang, Guangxiao ^a   He, Guangyuan ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MACROGOL; MALONALDEHYDE; PROLINE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUGAR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR WRKY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR WRKY10; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROUGHT STRESS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; GERMINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMOSIS; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PLANT PARAMETERS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; ROOT LENGTH; SALT STRESS; SEEDLING; SURVIVAL; TAWRKY10 GENE; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; WATER CONTENT; WHEAT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLD TEMPERATURE; DROUGHTS; GERMINATION; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; OXIDANTS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RABBITS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SALT-TOLERANCE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TRITICUM;

NICOTIANA TABACUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84878834458     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065120     Document Type: Article

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