Arabidopsis AtSUC2 and AtSUC4, encoding sucrose transporters, are required for abiotic stress tolerance in an ABA-dependent pathway

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 119-136

  Gong, Xue ^a,b   Liu, Mingli ^a   Zhang, Lijun ^a   Ruan, Yanye ^a   Ding, Rui ^a   Ji, Yuqi ^c   Zhang, Ning ^a   Zhang, Shaobin ^a   Farmer, John ^a   Wang, Che ^a  

^a SHENYANG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LIAONING ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

ABSCISIC ACID; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE; SUCROSE TRANSPORT PROTEIN, PLANT; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; COLD; DROUGHT; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GERMINATION; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STOMA; SEEDLING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ABSCISIC ACID; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; COLD TEMPERATURE; DROUGHTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GERMINATION; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANT STOMATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEEDLING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SUCROSE;

EID: 84916603906     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: 13993054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ppl.12225     Document Type: Article

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