| Literature DB >> 12966044 |
Helen Collett1, Rafal Butowt, James Smith, Jill Farrant, Nicola Illing.
Abstract
One of the desiccation-tolerant mechanisms of the resurrection plant, Xerophyta humilis, is the ability to shut down photosynthesis reversibly. The X. humilis psbR and ChlP genes, encoding the 10 kDa polypeptide of photosystem II (PSII) and a geranylgeranyl reductase, respectively, were isolated in a differential display screen as dehydration-down-regulated and rehydration-up-regulated transcripts. Two other PSII genes, psbA (chloroplast-encoded) and psbP (nuclear-encoded), isolated by degenerate primer PCR, display a similar trend in expression.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 12966044 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erg285
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Exp Bot ISSN: 0022-0957 Impact factor: 6.992