In field conditions, crops are adversely affected by a wide range of abiotic stresses including
drought, cold, salt, and heat, as well as biotic stresses including pests and pathogens. These …

In nature, plants constantly have to face pathogen attacks. However, plant disease rarely
occurs due to efficient immune systems possessed by the host plants. Pathogens are …

Transcription factors (TFs) play a significant role in signal transduction networks spanning
the perception of a stress signal and the expression of corresponding stress-responsive …

Plant growth and development has to be continuously adjusted to the available resources.
Their optimization requires the integration of signals conveying the plant metabolic status, its …

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 …

bZIPs and WRKYs are two important plant transcription factor (TF) families regulating
diverse developmental and stress-related processes. Since a partial overlap in these …

Background Cotton is a major fiber and oil crop worldwide. Cotton production, however, is
often threatened by abiotic environmental stresses. GRAS family proteins are among the …

Phytopathogenic microorganisms have a significant influence on survival and productivity of
several crop plants. Transcription factors (TFs) are important players in the response to biotic …

Responses to biotic stress in plants lead to dramatic reprogramming of gene expression,
favoring stress responses at the expense of normal cellular functions. Transcription factors …

Plants have significantly more transcription factor (TF) families than animals and fungi, and
plant TF families tend to contain more genes; these expansions are linked to adaptation to …