Modern plant biotechnology as a strategy in addressing climate change and attaining food security

TIK Munaweera, NU Jayawardana… - Agriculture & Food …, 2022 - Springer
Global warming causes a range of negative impacts on plants especially due to rapid
changes in temperatures, alterations of rainfall patterns, floods or drought conditions, and …

Biosynthesis and regulation of phenylpropanoids in plants

Y Deng, S Lu - Critical reviews in plant sciences, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Phenylpropanoids are a large class of plant secondary metabolites derived from aromatic
amino acids phenylalanine in most plants or tyrosine in partial monocots. It mainly includes …

MicroRNAs as potential targets for abiotic stress tolerance in plants

V Shriram, V Kumar, RM Devarumath… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The microRNAs (miRNAs) are small (20–24 nt) sized, non-coding, single stranded
riboregulator RNAs abundant in higher organisms. Recent findings have established that …

Plant MYB transcription factors: their role in drought response mechanisms

E Baldoni, A Genga, E Cominelli - International Journal of Molecular …, 2015 - mdpi.com
Water scarcity is one of the major causes of poor plant performance and limited crop yields
worldwide and it is the single most common cause of severe food shortage in develo** …

MicroRNA: a new target for improving plant tolerance to abiotic stress

B Zhang - Journal of experimental botany, 2015 - academic.oup.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are an extensive class of endogenous, small RNA molecules that sit
at the heart of regulating gene expression in multiple developmental and signalling …

Nanoparticle–plant interactions: two‐way traffic

MR Khan, V Adam, TF Rizvi, B Zhang, F Ahamad… - Small, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this Review, an effort is made to discuss the most recent progress and future trend in the
two‐way traffic of the interactions between plants and nanoparticles (NPs). One way is the …

MicroRNAs in control of plant development

C Li, B Zhang - Journal of cellular physiology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In the long evolutionary history, plant has evolved elaborate regulatory network to control
functional gene expression for surviving and thriving, such as transcription factor‐regulated …

Phyto-microbiome to mitigate abiotic stress in crop plants

A Singh, S Mazahar, SS Chapadgaonkar… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Plant-associated microbes include taxonomically diverse communities of bacteria,
archaebacteria, fungi, and viruses, which establish integral ecological relationships with the …

MicroRNA156 improves drought stress tolerance in alfalfa (Medicago sativa) by silencing SPL13

M Arshad, BA Feyissa, L Amyot, B Aung, A Hannoufa - Plant science, 2017 - Elsevier
Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) is an important forage crop that is often grown in areas that
frequently experience drought and water shortage. MicroRNA156 (miR156) is an emerging …

Functional roles of microRNAs in agronomically important plants—potential as targets for crop improvement and protection

AT Djami-Tchatchou, N Sanan-Mishra… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small non-coding RNAs that have recently emerged as
important regulators of gene expression, mainly through cleavage and/or translation …