biologia plantarum

International journal on Plant Life established by Bohumil Němec in 1959

Biologia plantarum 50:481-495, 2006 | DOI: 10.1007/s10535-006-0141-y

Transgenic plants with improved dehydration-stress tolerance: Progress and future prospects

S. Cherian1,*, M. P. Reddy2, R. B. Ferreira1
1 Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica (II), Oeiras, Portugal
2 Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, India

This review summarizes the recent progress made towards the development of transgenic plants with improved tolerance to water stress and salinity. Of the various strategies employed, emphasis has been given to the genes engineered for the biosynthesis of osmoprotectants and osmolytes. This review also briefly discusses the importance of the use of specific stress inducible promoters and the future prospects of transgenic plants with improved agronomic traits.

Keywords: compatible solutes; environmental stress; overexpression; rd29A promoter; regulatory-proteins
Subjects: abscisic acid (ABA); betainealdehyde dehydrogenase; choline dehydrogenase; choline oxidase; Citrus unshiyu; drought stress; fructans; glycinebetaine; mannitol; membrane proteins; proline; promotors, stress inducible; proteins; salt, salinity stress; stress inducible promoters; sugars; transgenic plants (cf. also in vitro…); water stress; water use efficiency (WUE)

Received: March 29, 2005; Accepted: June 8, 2005; Published: December 1, 2006  Show citation

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