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Improving plant drought, salt, and freezing tolerance by gene transfer of a single stress-inducible transcription factor.
Nature biotechnology - 1 Mar 1999
Kasuga M, Liu Q, Miura S, Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K, Shinozaki K
Abstract excerpt
Plant productivity is greatly affected by environmental stresses such as drought, salt loading, and freezing. We reported previously that a cis-acting promoter element, the dehydration response element (DRE), plays an important role in regulating gene expression in response to these stresses. The transcription factor DREB1A specifically interacts with the DRE and induces expression of stress tolerance genes. We...
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