Double overexpression of DREB and PIF transcription factors improves drought stress tolerance and cell elongation in transgenic plants

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 458-471

  Kudo, Madoka ^a   Kidokoro, Satoshi ^a   Yoshida, Takuya ^a,b   Mizoi, Junya ^a   Todaka, Daisuke ^a   Fernie, Alisdair R ^b   Shinozaki, Kazuo ^c   Yamaguchi Shinozaki, Kazuko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Cell elongation; Dehydration Responsive Element Binding protein 1A (DREB1A); Drought stress tolerance; Flowering; Rice Phytochrome Interacting factor Like 1 (OsPIL1)

Indexed keywords

PLANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CYTOLOGY; DROUGHT; FLOWER; GENETICS; METABOLISM; ORYZA; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

DROUGHTS; FLOWERS; ORYZA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84995695063     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12644     Document Type: Article

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