Functional Analysis of a Novel Chrysanthemum WRKY Transcription Factor Gene Involved in Salt Tolerance

Plant Molecular Biology Reporter

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 282-289

  Liu, Qing Lin ^a   Xu, Ke Dong ^b   Pan, Yuan Zhi ^a   Jiang, Bei Bei ^a   Liu, Guang Li ^a   Jia, Yin ^a   Zhang, Hai Qing ^a  

^a SICHUAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHOUKOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chrysanthemum; DgWRKY1; Gene expression; Salt stress; Transgenic tobacco

Indexed keywords

CHRYSANTHEMUM; CHRYSANTHEMUM X MORIFOLIUM; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84892479315     PISSN: 07359640     EISSN: 15729818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11105-013-0639-3     Document Type: Article

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