Chrysanthemum WRKY gene CmWRKY17 negatively regulates salt stress tolerance in transgenic chrysanthemum and Arabidopsis plants

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1365-1378

  Li, Peiling ^a,b   Song, Aiping ^a   Gao, Chunyan ^a   Wang, Linxiao ^a   Wang, Yinjie ^a   Sun, Jing ^a   Jiang, Jiafu ^a   Chen, Fadi ^a,b   Chen, Sumei ^a,b  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jiangsu Province Engineering Lab for Modern Facility Agriculture Technology and Equipment   (China)

Author keywords

Chrysanthemum morifolium; Salinity stress; WRKY transcription factor

Indexed keywords

ALLIUM CEPA; ARABIDOPSIS; CHRYSANTHEMUM; CHRYSANTHEMUM X MORIFOLIUM;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL FRACTIONATION; CHEMISTRY; CHRYSANTHEMUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; SALT TOLERANCE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHRYSANTHEMUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SALT-TOLERANCE; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84931572174     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-015-1793-x     Document Type: Article

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