Enhancing the anaerobic response.
Proteome analysis, and more recently DNA chip technology, has led to the identification of a large number of genes that are implicated in the anaerobic response of plants. As a result, an increasingly complex picture of the response in terms of biochemical and regulatory processes is emerging. A challenge is to find out more about the function of these newly identified gene products, and how they contribute to flooding tolerance. Our approach has been to manipulate levels of candidate gene products (using sense and antisense constructs) in the model system Arabidopsis thaliana, combined with biochemical and phenotypic analysis of the resulting transgenic plants.
Dolferus
Rudy
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CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia. rudy.dolferus@csiro.au
Klok
Erik Jan
EJ
Delessert
Christian
C
Wilson
Sarah
S
Ismond
Kathleen P
KP
Good
Allen G
AG
Peacock
W James
WJ
Dennis
Elizabeth S
ES
D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000693:Anaerobiosis; D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000502:physiology*; D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D005285:Fermentation; D017343:Genes, Plant; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D015534:Trans-Activators / Q000502:physiology; D014867:Water
D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; C104175:MYB2 protein, Arabidopsis; D015534:Trans-Activators; D014867:Water