Early transcriptional response of soybean contrasting accessions to root dehydration

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Ferreira Neto, José Ribamar Costa ^a   Pandolfi, Valesca ^a   Guimaraes, Francismar Corrêa Marcelino ^b   Benko Iseppon, Ana Maria ^a   Romero, Cynara ^b   Silva, Roberta Lane De Oliveira ^a   Rodrigues, Fabiana Aparecida ^b   Abdelnoor, Ricardo Vilela ^b   Nepomuceno, Alexandre Lima ^c   Kido, Ederson Akio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^c WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC STRESS; ARTICLE; BMY GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; EREBP GENE; ERF1B GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GPX5 GENE; HMGR GENE; HORMONE RESPONSE; LOX GENE; MYB GENE; NAC3 GENE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PER GENE; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT GENE; PLANT RESPONSE; PLANT ROOT; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; PUB GENE; RAP2 4 GENE; SALT STRESS; SOYBEAN; UPREGULATION; WRKY GENE; WRKY20 GENE; XET GENE;

DEHYDRATION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; SOYBEANS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84892611134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083466     Document Type: Article

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