Improved growth, drought tolerance, and ultrastructural evidence of increased turgidity in tobacco plants overexpressing arabidopsis vacuolar pyrophosphatase (AVP1)

Molecular Biotechnology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 379-392

  Arif, Anjuman ^a   Zafar, Yusuf ^b   Arif, Muhammad ^a   Blumwald, Eduardo ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GENETIC ENGINEERING NIBGE   (Pakistan)

^b PAKISTAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AVP1 overexpression; Less watered drought; Tobacco; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT TOLERANCES; OVER-EXPRESSION; PYROPHOSPHATASES; TOBACCO PLANTS; TRANSGENIC PLANTS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WATER REGIME; WATER RETENTION;

AGRONOMY; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; TOBACCO;

SEED;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ARABIDOPSIS VACUOLAR PYROPHOSPHATASE; INORGANIC PYROPHOSPHATASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GUARD CELL; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PLANT GROWTH; TOBACCO; WATER RETENTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BIOMASS; CELL WALL; DROUGHTS; INORGANIC PYROPHOSPHATASE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SALT-TOLERANCE; SEEDS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TOBACCO; WATER;

ARABIDOPSIS; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84880679345     PISSN: 10736085     EISSN: 15590305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12033-012-9577-9     Document Type: Article

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