WRKY transcription factors and plant defense responses: latest discoveries and future prospects

SH Wani, S Anand, B Singh, A Bohra, R Joshi - Plant Cell Reports, 2021 - Springer
Key message WRKY transcription factors are among the largest families of transcriptional
regulators. In this review, their pivotal role in modulating various signal transduction …

Transcription factors and plants response to drought stress: current understanding and future directions

R Joshi, SH Wani, B Singh, A Bohra, ZA Dar… - Frontiers in plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Increasing vulnerability of plants to a variety of stresses such as drought, salt and extreme
temperatures poses a global threat to sustained growth and productivity of major crops. Of …

Drought stress-induced physiological mechanisms, signaling pathways and molecular response of chloroplasts in common vegetable crops

K Razi, S Muneer - Critical Reviews in Biotechnology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Drought stress is one of the most adverse abiotic stresses that hinder plants' growth and
productivity, threatening sustainable crop production. It impairs normal growth, disturbs …

Drought stress in grain legumes: Effects, tolerance mechanisms and management

M Khatun, S Sarkar, FM Era, AKMM Islam, MP Anwar… - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Grain legumes are important sources of proteins, essential micronutrients and vitamins and
for human nutrition. Climate change, including drought, is a severe threat to grain legume …

Stress memory and the inevitable effects of drought: a physiological perspective

E Fleta-Soriano, S Munné-Bosch - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Plants grow and develop by adjusting their physiology to changes in their environment.
Changes in the abiotic environment occur over years, seasons, and days, but also over …

Transcription factors as molecular switches to regulate drought adaptation in maize

P Leng, J Zhao - Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2020 - Springer
Key message Here, we reviewed major transcription factors of maize that confer drought
stress tolerance, and their target genes and involved signaling pathway. Transcription …

The role of major transcription factors in Solanaceous food crops under different stress conditions: Current and future perspectives

LN Tolosa, Z Zhang - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Plant growth, development, and productivity are adversely affected by environmental
stresses such as drought (osmotic stress), soil salinity, cold, oxidative stress, irradiation, and …

Facing climate change: biotechnology of iconic Mediterranean woody crops

C De Ollas, R Morillón, V Fotopoulos… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The Mediterranean basin is especially sensitive to the adverse outcomes of climate change
and especially to variations in rainfall patterns and the incidence of extremely high …

Transcriptional regulation of osmotic stress tolerance in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

SH Wani, P Tripathi, A Zaid, GS Challa, A Kumar… - Plant Molecular …, 2018 - Springer
Key message The current review provides an updated, new insights into the regulation of
transcription mediated underlying mechanisms of wheat plants to osmotic stress …

Latest biotechnology tools and targets for improving abiotic stress tolerance in protein legumes

A Détain, P Bhowmik, N Leborgne-Castel… - … and Experimental Botany, 2022 - Elsevier
Protein legumes are among the most important crops for sustainable agriculture and global
food security for decades to come. Unfortunately, they are subject to several abiotic stresses …