Involvement of CmWRKY10 in drought tolerance of chrysanthemum through the ABA-signaling pathway

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Jaffar, Muhammad Abuzar ^a   Song, Aiping ^a   Faheem, Muhammad ^a   Chen, Sumei ^a   Jiang, Jiafu ^a   Liu, Chen ^a   Fan, Qingqing ^a   Chen, Fadi ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Abscisic acid; Chrysanthemum; Drought; WRKY

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; CATALASE; PEROXIDASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PLANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHRYSANTHEMUM; CMWRKY10 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUZNSOD GENE; DREB1A GENE; DREB2A GENE; DROUGHT STRESS; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NCED3A GENE; NCED3B GENE; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSACTIVATION ASSAY; YEAST CELL; DROUGHT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ABSCISIC ACID; CATALASE; CHRYSANTHEMUM; DROUGHTS; PEROXIDASE; PLANT PROTEINS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 85011841852     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms17050693     Document Type: Article

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