LcWRKY5: An unknown function gene from sheepgrass improves drought tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1507-1518

  Ma, Tian ^a,b   Li, Manli ^c   Zhao, Aiguo ^a   Xu, Xing ^b   Liu, Gongshe ^a   Cheng, Liqin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b NINGXIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Drought; LcWRKY5; Sheepgrass; Transcriptional factor

Indexed keywords

AEGILOPS TAUSCHII; ARABIDOPSIS; BRACHYPODIUM; BRACHYPODIUM DISTACHYON; HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE; ORYZA SATIVA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARABIDOPSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DROUGHT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; POACEAE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEEDLING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; DROUGHTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT STEMS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POACEAE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEEDLING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84906255013     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-014-1634-3     Document Type: Article

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