Adh as a Model for Analysis of the Integration of Stress Response Regulation in Plants

摘要

Alcohol dehydrogenase genes were among the first plant genes to be cloned, in large part because they were strongly induced in response to the environmental stress of flooding. Extensive characterization of the Adh genes of maize and arabidopsis focused on the hypoxia induction phenomenon, but also revealed that Adh genes can be induced by other factors such as cold and ABA. Thus Adh genes offer both the opportunity and the challenge to understand the mechanisms by which disparate inductive signals are interpreted, integrated and coordinated into regulated gene activity.