Seed-specific expression of a feedback-insensitive form of CYSTATHIONINE-ă-SYNTHASE in arabidopsis stimulates metabolic and transcriptomic responses associated with desiccation stress

Plant Physiology

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1575-1592

  Cohen, Hagai ^a,b   Israeli, Hadasa ^a   Matityahu, Ifat ^a   Amir, Rachel ^a,b,c  

^a MIGAL GALILEE TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c TEL HAI COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; LYASE; METHIONINE; O-SUCCINYLHOMOSERINE (THIOL)-LYASE; STARCH;

ARABIDOPSIS; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; DESICCATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GERMINATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CARBON-OXYGEN LYASES; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; DESICCATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GERMINATION; METHIONINE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEEDS; STARCH; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84908568471     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.246058     Document Type: Article

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