Alternative strategies for multi-stress tolerance and yield improvement in millets

M Numan, DD Serba, A Ligaba-Osena - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Millets are important cereal crops cultivated in arid and semiarid regions of the world,
particularly Africa and southeast Asia. Climate change has triggered multiple abiotic …

From Traditional Breeding to Genome Editing for Boosting Productivity of the Ancient Grain Tef [Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter]

M Numan, AL Khan, S Asaf, M Salehin, G Beyene… - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Tef (Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter) is a staple food crop for 70% of the Ethiopian population
and is currently cultivated in several countries for grain and forage production. It is one of the …

De novo transcriptome sequencing and analysis of salt-, alkali-, and drought-responsive genes in Sophora alopecuroides

F Yan, Y Zhu, Y Zhao, Y Wang, J Li, Q Wang, Y Liu - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
Background Salinity, alkalinity, and drought stress are the main abiotic stress factors
affecting plant growth and development. Sophora alopecuroides L., a perennial leguminous …

Genome-wide identification, structural characterization and gene expression analysis of the WRKY transcription factor family in pea (Pisum sativum L.)

R **ong, Z Peng, H Zhou, G Xue, A He, X Yao… - BMC Plant …, 2024 - Springer
Background The WRKY gene family is one of the largest families of transcription factors in
higher plants, and WRKY transcription factors play important roles in plant growth and …

[HTML][HTML] ZmWRKY104 positively regulates salt tolerance by modulating ZmSOD4 expression in maize

J Yan, J Li, H Zhang, Y Liu, A Zhang - The Crop Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Salinity impairs plant growth, limiting agricultural development. It is desirable to identify
genes responding to salt stress and their mechanism of action. We identified a function of …

A sorghum genome-wide association study (GWAS) identifies a WRKY transcription factor as a candidate gene underlying sugarcane aphid (Melanaphis sacchari) …

S Poosapati, E Poretsky, K Dressano, M Ruiz… - Planta, 2022 - Springer
Main conclusion A WRKY transcription factor identified through forward genetics is
associated with sorghum resistance to the sugarcane aphid and through heterologous …

[HTML][HTML] The auxin response factor gene family in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.): Genome-wide identification, characterization and expression analyses in response to …

A Gidhi, M Kumar, K Mukhopadhyay - South African Journal of Botany, 2021 - Elsevier
Auxin response factors (ARFs) are plant-specific transcription factors that bind explicitly to
Auxin Response Elements and mediate downstream expression of auxin responsive genes …

Isolation and characterization of PoWRKY, an abiotic stress-related WRKY transcription factor from Polygonatum odoratum

Z Wei, J Ye, Z Zhou, G Chen, F Meng, Y Liu - Physiology and Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
WRKY transcription factors play vital roles in response to biotic and abiotic stresses in
plants. As a kind of high value medicinal plant, Polygonatum odoratum has an ability to …

Transcriptome responses in wheat roots to colonization by the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis

M Li, R Wang, H Tian, Y Gao - Mycorrhiza, 2018 - Springer
The influence of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) colonization on the expression of genes in the
roots of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) at the transcriptome level is largely unknown. A pot …

Genome-wide analysis of Eucalyptus grandis WRKY genes family and their expression profiling in response to hormone and abiotic stress treatment

C Fan, H Yao, Z Qiu, H Ma, B Zeng - Gene, 2018 - Elsevier
The WRKY transcription factors, a large family of proteins in plants, are involved in multiple
developmental and biological processes including response to phytohormones and abiotic …