The effect of drought and salinity on the expressional levels of sucrose transporters in rice (Oryza sativa Nipponbare) cultivar plants

Rice, like other plants, contains a number of sucrose transporter genes. However knowledge of their expression and regulation during environmental stress conditions is limited. Using expressional analysis, the role of sucrose transporter genes was examined during drought and salinity stress conditions in 3-week-old rice (Orzya sativa L. cv Nipponbare) plants, over a time-course of 1 to 10 days of stress treatment. Among the 5 rice sucrose...