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Recent Progress in Research of Proline Transport Genes

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  • 1Key Laboratory of Plant Resources/Beijing Botanical Garden, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
    2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Received date: 2017-10-18

  Online published: 2018-01-02

Abstract

As a wide-spread stress adaption in plants, proline accumulation is thought to result from increased biosynthesis and decreased degradation. However, accumulating reports showed that proline transport also plays a role in stress-induced proline accumulation. In plants, several amino acid transporter protein families, such as AAPs, LHTs and ProTs, can transport proline. In this review, we summarize the expression pattern, function and expression regulation of these families in terms of proline transport, with an aim to provide some useful information on proline transport and accumulation research in plants.

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Chen Ying, Wang Ting, Hua Xuejun . Recent Progress in Research of Proline Transport Genes[J]. Chinese Bulletin of Botany, 2018 , 53(6) : 754 -763 . DOI: 10.11983/CBB17192

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