Constitutive, institutive and up-regulation of carotenogenesis regulatory mechanism via in vitro culture model system and elicitors

• Main Authors: Othman, Rashidi, Mohd Hassan, Norazian, Mohd Zaifuddin, Fatimah Azzahra
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) 2015
• Subjects: SB Plant culture; TP248.13 Biotechnology; TP934 Paints, pigments, varnishes, etc
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/43475/1/MJAS_2.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/43475/; http://www.ukm.my/mjas/

Phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) plays a regulatory role in many physiological processes in plants and is regulated and controlled by specific key factors or genes. Different environmental stress conditions such as water, drought, cold, light, and temperature result in increased amounts of ABA. Th...