>Magister Scientiae - MSc / In agriculture crop productivity is greatly affected by stresses such as salinity, drought,
temperature and honnonal changes of crop plants and responses to these stresses. Studies
have shown that a natriuretic peptide based regulatory system responsible for water and ion
homeostasis in animals has a hctcrologous equivalent in plants. Plant natriuretic peptide
immunoreactants (irPNPs) have been reported to be involved in K+, Na+ and er ions fluxes
in plants. Previously, an Arabidopsis thaliana transcript (AtPNP-A) encoding an irPNP
(AtPNP-A) has been identified and isolated (Ludidi et al., 2002). The AtPNP-A a novel
protein and part of its physiological role is presented here.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uwc/oai:etd.uwc.ac.za:11394/8269 |
| Date | January 2002 |
| Creators | Makgoke, Gile Dineo |
| Contributors | Gehring, C. A. |
| Publisher | University of the Western Cape |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | University of the Western Cape |
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