WRKY transcription factors play diverse roles in biotic and abiotic stresses. However, little comprehensive study has been presented about maize WRKY genes in drought stress response. In the present study, the phylogenetic relationships between ZmWRKYs and known WRKYs were analyzed, and it was...

Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) is a dryland crop, however, suitable water supply is still required for production especially at the seedling and vegetative stage. In this study, we cooperated with Taiwan Sugar Corporation to compare the drought tolerance ability from four Taiwanese cultivars, ...

We cloned a drought resistant ALDH gene with RT-PCR gene from Saccharum spontaneum, detected the gene expression level under different drought conditions, and analyzed the nucleotide and amino acid sequences with Blastx, Conserved Domain Search, ORF finder and MEGA. We compared the amino acids...

'Gui Wild Shanjingan' is a new citrus cultivar found in Luohua mountain of Pingfeng village, Malu town, Dongxing city, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It belongs to Rutaceae family and Hong Kong kumquat (Fortunella hindsii Swingle). Since 2013, through three years investigation on its botanical...

The Arabidopsis SUMO E3 ligase gene AtSIZ1 plays important roles in plant response to abiotic stresses as loss of function in AtSIZ1 leads to increased sensitivity to drought, heat and salt stresses. Overexpression of the AtSIZ1 rice homolog, OsSIZ1, leads to increased heat and drought tolerance in ...

Adverse environmental conditions cause endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress in plants. To mitigate ER stress damage, ER associated transcription factors and inositol-requiring enzyme-1 (IRE1)-mediated bZIP60 mRNA splicing are activated in plants. A drought-induced gene, encoding the ortholog of...

Frequent climatic changes in conjunction with other extreme environmental factors are known to affect growth, development and productivity of diverse crop plants. Pigeonpea, a major grain legume of the semiarid tropics, endowed with an excellent deep-root system, is known as one of the important...

Dehydrins, known as group 2 or D-11 family late-embryogenesis-abundant (LEA) proteins, play important roles in plant growth and stress tolerance. Six dehydrin genes were previously identified from the genome of Prunus mume. In this study, five of them (PmLEA8, PmLEA10, PmLEA19, PmLEA20, and ...

The annual Zea mays ssp. mexicana L. is a member of teosinte, a wild relative of the Zea mays spp. mays L. This subspecies has strong growth and regeneration ability, high tiller numbers, high protein and lysine content as well as resistance to many fungal diseases, and it can be effectively used...

Dehydration responsive element binding proteins are transcription factors of the plant-specific AP2 family, many of which contribute to abiotic stress responses in several plant species. We investigated the possibility of increasing drought tolerance in the traditional Chinese medicinal herb, ...