Includes abstract. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 172-191). / Has accompanying material on CD. / The resurrection plant, Xerophyta humilis is used as a model system to identify and characterise genes which play an important role in conferring desiccation tolerance in plants. In this study, the expression of a novel gene named desiccation induced-1 (dsi-1VOC) during desiccation in X. humilis and desiccationsensitive plants is characterised.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uct/oai:localhost:11427/4303 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Mulako, Inonge |
| Contributors | Illing, Nicola, Farrant, Jill M |
| Publisher | University of Cape Town, Faculty of Science, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral Thesis, Doctoral, PhD |
| Format | application/pdf |
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