The chimeric repressor for the GATA4 transcription factor improves tolerance to nitrogen deficiency in Arabidopsis

• Published in: Plant Biotechnology Vol. 34; no. 3; pp. 151 - 158
• Main Authors: Shin, Ji Min, Chung, KwiMi, Sakamoto, Shingo, Kojima, Soichi, Yeh, Chuan-Ming, Ikeda, Miho, Mitsuda, Nobutaka, Ohme-Takagi, Masaru
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Japan Japanese Society for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology 2017; Japan Science and Technology Agency
• Subjects: Agricultural research; Ammonium nitrate; Arabidopsis; Asparagine; Aspartate-ammonia ligase; chimeric repressor; Crop yield; Fertilizers; Gene expression; Genes; Glutamine; Nitrate reductase; Nitrogen; nitrogen use efficiency; Roots; Seedlings; Shoots; Short Communication; tolerance; transcription factor; Transcription factors; transcription factor; chimeric repressor; nitrogen use efficiency; Arabidopsis; tolerance

Nitrogen limits crop yield, but application of nitrogen fertilizer can cause environmental problems and much fertilizer is lost without being absorbed by plants. Increasing nitrogen use efficiency in plants may help overcome these problems and is, therefore, an important and active subject of agricu...