Drought- and salt-tolerant plants result from overexpression of the AVP1 H+-pump
Drought- and salt-tolerant plants result from overexpression of the AVP1 H+-pump
R. Gaxiola,Jisheng Li,4 Authors,G. Fink
2001 · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.191389398
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 770 Citations
TLDR
The phenotypes of the AVP1 transgenic plants suggest that increasing the vacuolar proton gradient results in increased solute accumulation and water retention, and sequestration of cations in the vacUole reduces their toxic effects.