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SUBMITTER: Lee JH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC21953 | biostudies-literature | 1999 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee J H JH Van Montagu M M Verbruggen N N
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19990501 10
Osmotic stress (drought, salt stress) is a major limiting factor for crop productivity in the world. Because cellular responses to osmotic stress are thought to be conserved in eukaryotes and because yeast is much more amenable than plants to genetic research, a functional strategy has been performed to identify limiting steps in osmotolerance of plants based on the complementation of yeast with a plant library. A new plant cDNA that encodes a functional homologue of the yeast Dbf2 kinase enhanc ...[more]