Overexpression of the Arabidopsis AtEm6 gene enhances salt tolerance in transgenic rice cell lines

Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 339-350

  Tang, Wei ^a,b   Page, Michael ^b  

^a YANGTZE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress tolerance; Agrobacterium mediated transformation; AtEM6 gene; Ca2+ dependent protein kinase; Transgenic cell cultures

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCES; AGROBACTERIUM MEDIATED TRANSFORMATIONS; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS STRAIN; COTTON (GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM L.); LATE EMBRYOGENESIS ABUNDANT GENES; PROTEIN KINASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE ACTIVITIES; TRANSGENIC CELLS;

CALCIUM; CELL CULTURE; COTTON; ENZYMES; GENE EXPRESSION; OXYGEN; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; ORYZA SATIVA; PINUS STROBUS; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 84882914813     PISSN: 01676857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11240-013-0329-8     Document Type: Article

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