期刊
PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
卷 2, 期 5, 页码 459-466出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2004.00090.x
关键词
ABF3; abiotic stress; abscisic acid; bZIP factor; gene regulation; regulon engineering
Unfavourable environmental conditions, such as drought, freezing and high salinity, are major limiting factors of plant productivity. Plants perceive and respond adaptively to such 'abiotic stress' conditions, and the adaptive process is controlled mainly by the phytolhormone, abscisic acid (ABA). The hormone, whose level increases under various stress conditions, functions as a signal to trigger adaptive responses that include changes in gene expression patterns. We have recently reported transcription factors that regulate the ABA-responsive gene expression. As ABA mediates adaptation to several common abiotic stresses, we investigated whether the transcription factors are involved in various stress responses. Here, we report that over-expression of ABF3, one of the factors, confers tolerance to chilling, freezing, high temperature and oxidative stress in addition to drought. our results indicate that ABF3 is involved in multiple stress responses, and that it may be useful genetic resource for the engineering of plant stress tolerance.
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