Claim · model-written summary
VHb maize seedlings had higher POD enzyme activity under waterlogging.
- Treatment
- transgenic VHbe0
- Gene
- peroxidase (POD)e0
- Outcome
- peroxidase (POD) enzyme activitye0
- Direction
- highere0
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Verbatim
e0“Under the waterlogging condition, transgenic VHb maize seedlings exhibited elevated expression of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH1) and higher peroxidase (POD) enzyme activity.”
Title
Overexpression of Vitreoscilla hemoglobin increases waterlogging tolerance in Arabidopsis and maize
Hewei Du; Xiaomeng Shen; Yiqin Huang; et al. BMC Plant Biology 2016. doi:10.1186/s12870-016-0728-1
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- Intervention effect Transgenic VHb Arabidopsis plants remained green after 14 days of waterlogging while controls died.
- Intervention effect VHb Arabidopsis improved seedling height, primary root length and lateral root number under waterlogging.
- Intervention effect VHb Arabidopsis improved shoot dry weight under waterlogging.
- Intervention effect VHb introduction significantly improved seedling height, primary root length and lateral root number in both maize backgrounds under waterlogging.
- Intervention effect VHb introduction significantly improved root and shoot dry weight in both maize backgrounds under waterlogging.
- Intervention effect VHb maize seedlings had elevated ADH1 expression under waterlogging.
- Intervention effect Zheng58 (VHb) had higher waterlogging tolerance than its negative control.
- Intervention effect CML50 (VHb) had higher waterlogging tolerance than its negative control.