With the global climate anomalies and the destruction of ecological balance, the water
shortage has become a serious ecological problem facing all mankind, and drought has …

The WRKY transcription factor (TF) belongs to one of the major plant protein superfamilies.
The WRKY TF gene family plays an important role in the regulation of transcriptional …

The WRKY gene family is a plant-specific transcription factor (TF) group, playing important
roles in many different response pathways of diverse abiotic stresses (drought, saline, alkali …

Plants confront multifarious environmental stresses widely divided into abiotic and biotic
stresses, of which heavy metal stress represents one of the most damaging abiotic stresses …

Salt stress dramatically impedes plant growth and development as well as crop yield. The
apple production regions are reduced every year, because of the secondary salt damage by …

The recent advancements in sequencing technologies and informatic tools promoted a
paradigm shift to decipher the hidden biological mysteries and transformed the biological …

Cadmium (Cd) is a non-essential highly toxic element that poses a potential health threat for
plants, humans, and animals at considerably smaller concentrations. Plants can uptake Cd …

The occurrence of heavy metals in soils may be beneficial or toxic to the environment. The
biota may require some of these elements considered essentials (like Fe, Zn, Cu or Mo) in …

The WRKY gene family has been suggested to play important roles in the regulation of
transcriptional reprogramming associated with plant stress responses. Modification of the …

Plants, being sessile in nature, are constantly exposed to various environmental stresses,
such as solar UV radiations, soil salinity, drought and desiccation, rehydration, low and high …