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Rapid One-step Enzymatic Synthesis and All-aqueous Purification of Trehalose Analogues
Published on: February 17, 2017
Building stress tolerance through over-producing trehalose in transgenic plants
1Plant Cell Culture Technology Section, Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400 085, India. prasanna@magnum.barc.ernet.in
Abstract:
Trehalose is a rare sugar with unique abilities to protect biomolecules from environmental stresses and is present in many bacteria, fungi and some desiccation-tolerant higher plants. Increasing trehalose accumulation in crop plants could improve drought and salinity tolerance. Transgenic plants have been developed with trehalose biosynthetic genes--a recent study on the stress-inducible overexpression of the bifunctional TPSP fusion gene in transgenic rice could offer novel strategies for improving abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants.
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