The sunflower transcription factor HaWRKY76 confers drought and flood tolerance to Arabidopsis thaliana plants without yield penalty

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2065-2080

  Raineri, Jesica ^a   Ribichich, Karina F ^a   Chan, Raquel L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Drought; Submergence; Sunflower; Transcription factor; WRKY

Indexed keywords

PLANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADAPTATION; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; DROUGHT; FLOODING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; PROMOTER REGION; SEEDLING; SUNFLOWER; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOMASS; DROUGHTS; FLOODS; HELIANTHUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEEDLINGS; SEEDS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84946492028     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-015-1852-3     Document Type: Article

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