Constitutive and stress-inducible overexpression of a native aquaporin gene (MusaPIP2;6) in transgenic banana plants signals its pivotal role in salt tolerance

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 88, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 41-52

  Sreedharan, Shareena ^a   Shekhawat, Upendra K Singh ^a   Ganapathi, Thumballi R ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Agrobacterium mediated genetic transformation; Aquaporin; Banana; MusaPIP2; 6

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUSA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SALT TOLERANCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AQUAPORINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SALT-TOLERANCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84936776937     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: 15735028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-015-0305-2     Document Type: Article

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