Cloning and sequence analysis of the safflower betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase gene
“Cloning and sequence analysis of the safflower betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase gene”, vol. 13, pp. 344-353, 2014.
, In response to salinity or drought stress, many plants accumulate glycine betaine, which is a regulator of osmosis. In plants, the last step in betaine synthesis is catalyzed by betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase (BADH), a nuclear-encoded chloroplastic enzyme. Based on the conserved oligo amino acid residues of the published BADH genes from other higher plant species, a cDNA sequence, designated CtBADH, was isolated from safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) using a polymerase chain reaction approach.