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Narrowing Down the Targets： Towards Successful Genetic Engineering of Drought-Tolerant Crops by Yang, Shujun, Vanderbeld, Barbara, Wan, Jiangxin, Huang, Yafan

“…Drought is the most important environmental stress affecting agriculture worldwide. Exploiting yield potential and maintaining yield stability of crops in…”
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Development of Drought-Tolerant Canola (Brassica napus L.) through Genetic Modulation of ABA-mediated Stomatal Responses by Wan, Jiangxin, Griffiths, Rebecca, Ying, Jifeng, McCourt, Peter, Huang, Yafan

“…Canola is one of the most important oilseed crops, and its seed yield and quality are significantly affected by environmental stresses such as drought. The…”
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Shoot-Specific Down-Regulation of Protein Farnesyltransferase (α-Subunit) for Yield Protection against Drought in Canola by Wang, Yang, Beaith, Michelle, Chalifoux, Maryse, Ying, Jifeng, Uchacz, Tina, Sarvas, Carlene, Griffiths, Rebecca, Kuzma, Monika, Wan, Jiangxin, Huang, Yafan

“…Canola (Brassica napus L.) is one of the most important oilseed crops in the world and its seed yield and quality are significantly affected by drought stress…”
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Molecular tailoring of farnesylation for plant drought tolerance and yield protection by Wang, Y, Ying, J, Kuzma, M, Chalifoux, M, Sample, A, McArthur, C, Uchacz, T, Sarvas, C, Wan, J, Dennis, D.T

“…Protecting crop yield under drought stress is a major challenge for modern agriculture. One biotechnological target for improving plant drought tolerance is…”
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A pea antisense gene for the chloroplast stromal processing peptidase yields seedling lethals in Arabidopsis: survivors show defective GFP import in vivo by Zhong, Rong, Wan, Jiangxin, Jin, Rongguan, Lamppa, Gayle

“…Summary The stromal processing peptidase (SPP) of chloroplasts is a metalloendopeptidase that cleaves in vitro a broad range of precursor substrates. Here, we…”
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Disruption of chloroplast biogenesis and plant development upon down‐regulation of a chloroplast processing enzyme involved in the import pathway by Wan, Jiangxin, Bringloe, David, Lamppa, Gayle K.

“…Summary Typically, nuclear‐encoded chloroplast proteins are synthesized as precursors and require proteolytic processing upon import before their assembly into…”
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Transit Peptides Play a Major Role in the Preferential Import of Proteins into Leucoplasts and Chloroplasts by Wan, Jiangxin, Blakeley, Stephen D., Dennis, David T., Ko, Kenton

“…The in vitro import characteristics of six different precursors of plastid proteins were assessed to determine differences in the protein import pathways of…”
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Activation tagging identifies Arabidopsis transcription factor AtMYB68 for heat and drought tolerance at yield determining reproductive stages by Deng, Mingde, Wang, Yang, Kuzma, Monika, Chalifoux, Maryse, Tremblay, Linda, Yang, Shujun, Ying, Jifeng, Sample, Angela, Wang, Hung‐Mei, Griffiths, Rebecca, Uchacz, Tina, Tang, Xurong, Tian, Gang, Joslin, Katelyn, Dennis, David, McCourt, Peter, Huang, Yafan, Wan, Jiangxin

“…SUMMARY Heat stress occurring at reproductive stages can result in significant and permanent damage to crop yields. However, previous genetic studies in…”
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Import Characteristics of a Leucoplast Pyruvate Kinase Are Influenced by a 19-Amino-acid Domain within the Protein (∗) by Wan, Jiangxin, Blakeley, Stephen D., Dennis, David T., Ko, Kenton

“…Two cDNA clones encoding distinct forms of plastid pyruvate kinase (designated Pka and Pkg) have recently been characterized. Pkg is found in both leucoplasts…”
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Molecular characterization of plastid pyruvate kinase from castor and tobacco by Blakeley, S. (Queens Univ., Kingston, Ont. (Canada). Dept. of Biology), Gottlob-McHugh, S, Wan, J, Crews, L, Miki, B, Ko, K, Dennis, D.T

“…Clones encoding two different forms of plastid pyruvate kinase (PKp; EC 2.7.1.40) have been isolated from both castor and tobacco seed cDNA libraries. One…”
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