Expression of OsMYB55 in maize activates stress-responsive genes and enhances heat and drought tolerance

BMC Genomics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Casaretto, José A ^a   El kereamy, Ashraf ^a,c   Zeng, Bin ^a   Stiegelmeyer, Suzy M ^b,d   Chen, Xi ^b   Bi, Yong Mei ^a   Rothstein, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b SYNGENTA BIOTECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE EXTENSION   (United States)

^d Expression Analysis Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought; Heat; Maize; MYB; Stress; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME; PLANT PROTEIN;

ABIOTIC STRESS; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAT STRESS; HEAT TOLERANCE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LEAF DAMAGE; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; OSMYB55 GENE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT GENE; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STRESS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UPREGULATION; DROUGHT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEAT; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ONCOGENE MYB; ORYZA; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

DROUGHTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, MYB; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HOT TEMPERATURE; ORYZA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTOME; UP-REGULATION; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84973098775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-2659-5     Document Type: Article

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