Constitutive Expression of a Tomato Small Heat Shock Protein Gene LeHSP21 Improves Tolerance to High-Temperature Stress by Enhancing Antioxidation Capacity in Tobacco

Plant Molecular Biology Reporter

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 399-409

  Zhang, Jiang ^b,c   Chen, Haiyan ^a,b   Wang, Haihai ^b   Li, Bei ^b   Yi, Yanjun ^a   Kong, Fanjing ^d   Liu, Jiayao ^a   Zhang, Hongxia ^b  

^a QINGDAO AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

^c HUBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens; High temperature tolerance; LeHSP21; Oxidative stress; Tobacco; Transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940212344     PISSN: 07359640     EISSN: 15729818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11105-015-0925-3     Document Type: Article

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