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Up-regulation of a H+-pyrophosphatase (H+-PPase) as a strategy to engineer drought-resistant crop plants.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 27 Dec 2005
Park Sunghun, Li Jisheng, Pittman Jon K, Berkowitz Gerald A, Yang Haibing, Undurraga Soledad, Morris Jay, Hirschi Kendal D, Gaxiola Roberto A
Abstract excerpt
Engineering drought -resistant crop plants is a critically important objective. Overexpression of the vacuolar H(+)-pyrophosphatase (H(+)-PPase) AVP1 in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana results in enhanced performance under soil water deficits. Recent work demonstrates that AVP1 plays an important role in root development through the facilitation of auxin fluxes. With the objective of improving crop...
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