Potential use of the DREB/ERF, MYB, NAC and WRKY transcription factors to improve abiotic and biotic stress in transgenic plants

Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Erpen, Ligia ^a,b   Devi, H Sunitibala ^c   Grosser, Jude W ^a   Dutt, Manjul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIORESOURCES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT   (India)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Biotic stress; Plant transformation; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ABIOTIC STRESS; BIOTIC STRESS; PLANT STRESS RESPONSE; PLANT TRANSFORMATION; POTENTIAL STRESS; STRESS TOLERANCE; TRANSGENIC PLANTS; YIELD LIMITING FACTOR;

TRANSCRIPTION;

GROWTH; PLANTS; PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 85031916897     PISSN: 01676857     EISSN: 15735044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11240-017-1320-6     Document Type: Review

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