Genetic engineering strategies for biotic and abiotic stress tolerance and quality enhancement in horticultural crops: a comprehensive review

N Parmar, KH Singh, D Sharma, L Singh, P Kumar… - 3 Biotech, 2017 - Springer
Genetic engineering technique offers myriads of applications in improvement of horticultural
crops for biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, and produce quality enhancement. During last …

Zinc finger protein transcription factors: Integrated line of action for plant antimicrobial activity

A Noman, M Aqeel, N Khalid, W Islam, T Sanaullah… - Microbial …, 2019 - Elsevier
The plants resist/tolerate unfavorable conditions in their natural habitats by using different
but aligned and integrated defense mechanisms. Such defense responses include not only …

Transgenic banana plants overexpressing a native plasma membrane aquaporin MusaPIP1;2 display high tolerance levels to different abiotic stresses

S Sreedharan, UKS Shekhawat… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Water transport across cellular membranes is regulated by a family of water channel
proteins known as aquaporins (AQP s). As most abiotic stresses like suboptimal …

An aquaporin gene MaPIP2-7 is involved in tolerance to drought, cold and salt stresses in transgenic banana (Musa acuminata L.)

Y Xu, W Hu, J Liu, S Song, X Hou, C Jia, J Li… - Plant Physiology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Aquaporins (AQPs) transport water and other small molecules; however, their precise role in
abiotic stress responses is not fully understood. In this study, we cloned and characterized …

Banana sRNAome and degradome identify microRNAs functioning in differential responses to temperature stress

H Zhu, Y Zhang, R Tang, H Qu, X Duan, Y Jiang - BMC genomics, 2019 - Springer
Background Temperature stress is a major environmental factor affecting not only plant
growth and development, but also fruit postharvest life and quality. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are …

MaDREB1F confers cold and drought stress resistance through common regulation of hormone synthesis and protectant metabolite contents in banana

Y Xu, W Hu, S Song, X Ye, Z Ding, J Liu… - Horticulture …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Adverse environmental factors severely affect crop productivity. Improving crop resistance to
multiple stressors is an important breeding goal. Although CBF s/DREB1 s extensively …

Rice stress associated protein 1 (OsSAP1) interacts with aminotransferase (OsAMTR1) and pathogenesis-related 1a protein (OsSCP) and regulates abiotic stress …

KS Kothari, PK Dansana, J Giri, AK Tyagi - Frontiers in plant science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Stress associated proteins (SAPs) are the A20/AN1 zinc-finger containing proteins which
can regulate the stress signaling in plants. The rice SAP protein, OsSAP1 has been shown …

An A20/AN1-type zinc finger protein modulates gibberellins and abscisic acid contents and increases sensitivity to abiotic stress in rice (Oryza sativa)

Y Zhang, H Lan, Q Shao, R Wang… - Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The plant hormones gibberellins (GA) and abscisic acid (ABA) play important roles in plant
development and stress responses. Here we report a novel A20/AN1-type zinc finger protein …

SAPs as novel regulators of abiotic stress response in plants

J Giri, PK Dansana, KS Kothari, G Sharma, S Vij… - …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Stress associated proteins (SAPs), novel A20/AN1 zinc‐finger domain‐containing proteins,
are fast emerging as potential candidates for biotechnological approaches in order to …

OsSAP6 Positively Regulates Soda Saline–Alkaline Stress Tolerance in Rice

F Zhu, K Wang, D Li, Z Liu, M Li, Z Wang, X Li, X Lan… - Rice, 2022 - Springer
Background Soil salinization is a worldwide environmental problem, especially in the arid
and semiarid regions of northeastern China, which are heavily affected by soda saline …