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Arabidopsis Cor15am is a chloroplast stromal protein that has cryoprotective activity and forms oligomers.
Plant physiology - 1 May 2007
Nakayama Katsuhiro, Okawa Kumiko, Kakizaki Tomohiro, Honma Takenori, Itoh Hideaki, Inaba Takehito
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Many plants acquire increased freezing tolerance when they are exposed to nonfreezing temperatures of a certain duration. This process is known as cold acclimation and allows plants to protect themselves from freezing injury. A wide variety of polypeptides are induced during cold acclimation, among which is one encoded by COR15A in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). Previous studies showed that the COR15A gene...
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