Coordinated regulation of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and soybean MAPK pathway genes improved mycorrhizal soybean drought tolerance

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 408-419

  Liu, Zhilei ^a,b   Li, Yuanjing ^a,b   Ma, Lina ^a   Wei, Haichao ^a   Zhang, Jianfeng ^c   He, Xingyuan ^a   Tian, Chunjie ^a  

^a NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c JILIN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; GLOMUS INTRARADICES; GLYCINE MAX; RHIZOPHAGUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; SOYBEAN PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DROUGHT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCORRHIZA; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOYBEAN; SYMBIOSIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DROUGHTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCORRHIZAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOYBEAN PROTEINS; SOYBEANS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84927623060     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-09-14-0251-R     Document Type: Article

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