Virus-induced gene silencing reveals control of reactive oxygen species accumulation and salt tolerance in tomato by γ-aminobutyric acid metabolic pathway

Plant Cell and Environment

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 600-613

  Bao, Hexigeduleng ^a   Chen, Xianyang ^a   Lv, Sulian ^a   Jiang, Ping ^a   Feng, Juanjuan ^a   Fan, Pengxiang ^a   Nie, Lingling ^a   Li, Yinxin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Electron transport chain; GABA; ROS; Solanum lycopersicum; TCA cycle; VIGS

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FRUIT; HOMEOSTASIS; ORGANIC ACID; OXYGEN; SALINITY TOLERANCE; VIRUS;

ARABIDOPSIS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

4 AMINOBUTYRATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCCINATE SEMIALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; SALT TOLERANCE; TOMATO;

4-AMINOBUTYRATE TRANSAMINASE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SALT-TOLERANCE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SUCCINATE-SEMIALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE;

EID: 84922654392     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pce.12419     Document Type: Article

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