Homeodomain leucine zipper (HD-ZIP) proteins are plant-specific transcription factors that
contain a homeodomain (HD) and a leucine zipper (LZ) domain. The highly conserved HD …

Main conclusion Plants develop both short-term and transgenerational memory of drought
stress through epigenetic regulation of transcription for a better response to subsequent …

Drought episodes decrease plant growth and productivity, which in turn cause high
economic losses. Plants naturally sense and respond to water stress by activating specific …

Many eukaryotic transcription factors (TF) form homodimer or heterodimer complexes to
regulate gene expression. Dimerization of BASIC LEUCINE ZIPPER (bZIP) TFs are critical …

WRKY transcription factors constitute one of the largest transcription factor families in plants,
and play crucial roles in plant growth and development, defense regulation and stress …

The bZIP transcription factor (TF) family plays an important role in the abscisic acid (ABA)
signaling pathway of abiotic stress in plants. We here report the cloning and characterization …

Plants develop tolerance to drought by activating genes with altered levels of epigenetic
modifications. Specific transcription factors are involved in this activation, but the molecular …

Cytokinin is a multifaceted plant hormone that plays major roles not only in diverse plant
growth and development processes, but also stress responses. We summarize knowledge …

WRKY transcription factors are transcriptional regulators of signaling pathways involved in
biotic and abiotic stress responses. In this study, we report that ectopic expression of the …

Drought stress is the most important environmental stress limiting maize production.
ZmPTF1, a phosphate starvation-induced basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor …