financially supported by the Western Youth Project B of the“Light of West China”Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Y7260411W1);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31590823)
The capacity of plants to accumulate cadmium(Cd) is significant for phytoremediation of Cd-polluted soils. Turnips cultivated in China include species featuring high Cd accumulation and some of these plants act as Cd ...
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Phytochelatin synthase (PCS) (EC 2.3.2.15) catalyzes the final step of phytochelatins (PCs) biosynthesis. PCs are a family of cysteine-rich thiol-reactive and heavy metal- binding peptides that play an important role ...
Supported by the National Program of Research and Development of Transgenic Plants of China (JY03A2001) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30570138 and 30370127).The authors thank Professors Kang Chong and Zheng Meng of the Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, for kindly providing the vectors of pTCK303 and pKZMM1.
Phytochelatins (PCs) play an important role in heavy metal resistance and accumulation. To reduce the accumulation of cadmium (Cd) in rice seeds, the expression of phytochelatin synthase (PCS) gene OsPCS1 was su...
Supported by the Special Project of Transgenic Plants Research (JY03A2001)
Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon L. cv. Goldensun) is highly resistant to and accumulates large amounts of cadmium (Cd). A phytochelatin synthase (PCS) cDNA (CdPCS1) was isolated from this grass by rapid amplifi...