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Improvement of drought tolerance and grain yield in common bean by overexpressing trehalose-6-phosphate synthase in rhizobia.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Jul 2008
Suárez Ramón, Wong Arnoldo, Ramírez Mario, Barraza Aarón, Orozco María Del Carmen, Cevallos Miguel A, Lara Miguel, Hernández Georgina, Iturriaga Gabriel
Abstract excerpt
Improving stress tolerance and yield in crops are major goals for agriculture. Here, we show a new strategy to increase drought tolerance and yield in legumes by overexpressing trehalose-6-phosphate synthase in the symbiotic bacterium Rhizobium etli. Phaseolus vulgaris (common beans) plants inoculated with R. etli overexpressing trehalose-6-phosphate synthase gene had more nodules with increased nitrogenase...
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