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...

Germin-like protein (GLP) genes in plants constitute a multigene family that functions in a variety of biological processes, such as plant growth and development and respond to abiotic and biotic stresses. Available genome sequences of foxtail millet (Setaria italica) have facilitated the...

Licorice derived from Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch is an important traditional Chinese medicine. The cultivated licorice has gradually replaced the wild licorice, becoming the main source, while its quality is unstable. To explore the influence of genetic and environment on the quality of cultivated ...

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, ...

Multidrug and toxic extrusion (MATE) transporter has been shown to be involved in the vacuolar accumulation of flavonoids in plants. A new MATE transporter gene was isolated from high-bush blueberry "Patroit" by Genome walking and rapid-amplification of cDNA ends technology. It was named VcMATE6...

In this experiment, small intestinal epithelial cells of piglets were used as the model to study the effects of eleutheroside B (EB) on mRNA expression of cell tight junction proteins and inflammatory cytokines in small intestinal epithelial cells of piglets (IPEC-J2) cells by qRT-PCR method. The...

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...

Tryptophan aminotransferase gene family is a key gene that directly involved in auxin biosynthesis pathway in plants. The full-length cDNA sequence and DNA sequence of Siraitia grosvenorii tryptophan aminotransferase of Arabidopsis 1-Related 2 (SgTAR2) gene was amplified by using transcriptome...

The objective of this experiment was to investigate the effects of exogenous glutathione (GSH) on tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L. cv. Zhongshu No. 4) seedlings under NaCl stress (100 mM), particularly the effects on (1) redox status, (2) antioxidative metabolism, and (3) the gene expression and...

Coconut (Cocos nucifers L.) can accumulate up to nearly 80% of medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs) in its endosperm. A previous study about suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) libraries of coconut endosperm indicated that only one acyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) thioesterase CnFatB3 was...