Claim · model-written summary
The authors suggest increased AsA accumulation, antioxidant activity, and stomatal closure may explain drought resistance.
- Taxon
- Arabidopsis
Arabidopsise0 - Gene
- AgAPX1e0
- Compound
- AsAe0
- Outcome
- enhanced drought resistancee0
- Qualifier
- may be achievede0
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Verbatim
e0“The enhanced drought resistance of overexpressing AgAPX1 in Arabidopsis may be achieved by increasing the accumulation of AsA, enhancing the activities of various antioxidant enzymes, and promoting stomatal closure”
Title
Jie-Xia Liu; Kai Feng; Ao-Qi Duan; et al. BMC Plant Biology 2019. doi:10.1186/s12870-019-2095-1
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation The celery APX gene was cloned and named AgAPX1.
- Observation AgAPX1 transcription increased significantly under drought stress.
- Observation The predicted rAgAPX1 mass of 33.16 kDa was verified by SDS-PAGE.
- Observation rAgAPX1 optimum pH was 7.0.
- Observation rAgAPX1 optimum temperature was 55 °C.
- Observation AgAPX1 transgenic Arabidopsis had higher ascorbate content and antioxidant capacity.
- Observation AgAPX1 transgenic Arabidopsis had higher drought resistance.
- Observation Transgenic Arabidopsis lines showed smaller declines in photosynthesis, chlorophyll, and water content after drought.