JcLEA, a novel LEA-like protein from Jatropha curcas, confers a high level of tolerance to dehydration and salinity in Arabidopsis thaliana

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Liang, Jing ^a   Zhou, Mingqi ^a   Zhou, Xin ^a   Jin, Yuanjie ^a   Xu, Ming ^a   Lin, Juan ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; LATE EMBRYOGENESIS ABUNDANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ABIOTIC STRESS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOPLASM; DEHYDRATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DROUGHT STRESS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; JATROPHA CURCAS; LEA GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLANT GROWTH; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SALINITY; SALT STRESS; SALT TOLERANCE; SEEDLING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ABSCISIC ACID; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEHYDRATION; DNA, PLANT; DROUGHTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; JATROPHA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SALINITY; SALT-TOLERANCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 84896722092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083056     Document Type: Article

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