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. 2018 Aug 24;19(9):2507. doi: 10.3390/ijms19092507
ABRC Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center
cDNA Complementary deoxyribonucleic acid
CBF C-repeat binding factor
Col-0 Columbia-0 (a wild-type Arabidopsis thaliana line)
DREB Dehydration-responsive element binding factor
F m Maximal chlorophyll fluorescence determined in leaves darkened for 5 min
Fm Maximal chlorophyll fluorescence determined in a leaf exposed to light
MDPI Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
NCBI National Center for Biotechnology Information
NPQ Non-photochemical quenching of chlorophyll fluorescence calculated as Fm/Fm‘ − 1
npq1 An Arabidopsis thaliana mutant line deficient in violaxanthin deepoxidase
npq1 npq4 An Arabidopsis thaliana mutant line deficient in both violaxanthin deepoxidase and PsbS
npq4 An Arabidopsis thaliana mutant line deficient in the PsbS protein
n.s. Not significantly different
PsbS Photosystem II subunit S
qPCR Quantitative polymerase chain reaction
RNA Ribonucleic acid
ROS Reactive oxygen species
UBC21 Gene for ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme E2 21
UTR Untranslated region
VAZ Violaxanthin + Antheraxanthin + Zeaxanthin
vte1 An Arabidopsis thaliana mutant line deficient in tocopherols