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Engineered drought tolerance in tomato plants is reflected in chlorophyll fluorescence emission.
Plant science : an international journal of experimental plant biology - 1 Jan 2012
Mishra Kumud Bandhu, Iannacone Rina, Petrozza Angelo, Mishra Anamika, Armentano Nadia, La Vecchia Giovanna, Trtílek Martin, Cellini Francesco, Nedbal Ladislav
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Drought stress is one of the most important factors that limit crop productivity worldwide. In order to obtain tomato plants with enhanced drought tolerance, we inserted the transcription factor gene ATHB-7 into the tomato genome. This gene was demonstrated earlier to be up-regulated during drought stress in Arabidopsis thaliana thus acting as a negative regulator of growth. We compared the performance of wild...
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