Overexpression of Iris. lactea var. chinensis metallothionein llMT2a enhances cadmium tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 22-28

  Gu, Chun Sun ^a   Liu, Liang qin ^b   Zhao, Yan Hai ^a   Deng, Yan ming ^c   Zhu, Xu dong ^b   Huang, Su Zhen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Cadmium stress; Iris. lactea var. chinensis; Metallothionein; Reactive oxygen species

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; DIAMINOBENZIDINE; METALLOTHIONEIN II; NITROBLUE TETRAZOLIUM; RIBOSOME DNA;

ABSORPTION; ANGIOSPERM; CADMIUM; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAVY METAL; METALLOTHIONEIN; REACTION KINETICS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; CADMIUM POISONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IRIDACEAE; IRIS LACTEA CHINENSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MT2A GENE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL TOLERANCE; PLANT STRESS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROOT LENGTH; TRANSGENIC PLANT; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE;

ARABIDOPSIS; CADMIUM STRESS; IRIS. LACTEA VAR. CHINENSIS; METALLOTHIONEIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; CADMIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; IRIS PLANT; METALLOTHIONEIN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84900561031     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2014.04.002     Document Type: Article

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