Article
A MAPK gene from Dead Sea fungus confers stress tolerance to lithium salt and freezing-thawing: Prospects for saline agriculture.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 27 Dec 2005
Jin Yan, Weining Song, Nevo Eviatar
Abstract excerpt
The Dead Sea is one of the most saline lakes on earth ( approximately 340 g/liter salinity) and is approximately 10 times saltier than the oceans. Eurotium herbariorum, a common fungal species, was isolated from its water. EhHOG gene, encoding a mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) that plays an essential role in the osmoregulatory pathway in yeast and many other eukaryotes, was isolated from E. herbariorum....
Topics
- Agriculture
- Alleles
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Ascomycota
- Aspergillus
- Aspergillus nidulans
- Cations
- Cell Proliferation
- DNA
- DNA, Complementary
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Evolution, Molecular
- Freezing