Among abiotic stressors, drought and salinity seriously affect crop growth worldwide. In
plants, research has aimed to increase stress-responsive protein synthesis upstream or …

Being sessile, plants rely on intricate signaling pathways to mount an efficient defense
against external threats while maintaining the cost balance for growth. Transcription factors …

Water deficit (drought stress) massively restricts plant growth and the yield of crops; reducing
the deleterious effects of drought is therefore of high agricultural relevance. Drought triggers …

Abstract Background Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.) is an important staple
food crop widely grown in Africa and South Asia. Among the millets, finger millet has high …

Environmental stresses are the main constraints on agricultural productivity and food
security worldwide. This issue is worsened by abrupt and severe changes in global climate …

Increasing maize grain yield has been a major focus of both plant breeding and genetic
engineering to meet the global demand for food, feed, and industrial uses. We report that …

Background Maize (Zea mays L.) is a principal cereal crop cultivated worldwide for human
food, animal feed, and more recently as a source of biofuel. However, as a direct …

Crop plants should be resilient to climatic factors in order to feed ever-increasing
populations. Plants have developed stress-responsive mechanisms by changing their …

Drought stress is a major cause of yield losses in sugarcane production and the frequency of
its occurrence in several regions is expected to increase due to climate change. Despite the …

Tomato plants are susceptible to drought stress, but the mechanism involved in this process
still remains poorly understood. In the present study, we demonstrated that SlNAC6, a …