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BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 31, Issue 7, Pages 1079-1087Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-009-9959-7
Keywords
Cold acclimation protein; Cold tolerance; Functional analysis; Populus; Tamarix hispida
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- National Natural Science Foundation [30571509]
- Heilongjiang province scientific and technological project [GB06B303, WB07N02]
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The ThCAP gene, which encodes a cold acclimation protein, was isolated from a Tamarix hispida NaCl-stress root cDNA library; its expression patterns were then assayed by qRT-PCR in different T. hispida tissues treated with low temperature (4A degrees C), salt (400 mM NaCl), drought (20% PEG6000) and exogenous abscisic acid (100 mu M). Induction of ThCAP gene was not only responsive to different stress conditions but was also organ specific. When transgenic Populus (P. davidiana x P. bolleana) plants were generated, expressing ThCAP under regulation of the cauliflower mosaic virus CaMV 35S promoter, they had a greater resistance to low temperature than non-transgenic seedlings, suggesting that ThCAP might play an important role in cold tolerance.
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