Modern plant biotechnology as a strategy in addressing climate change and attaining food security

TIK Munaweera, NU Jayawardana… - Agriculture & Food …, 2022 - Springer
Global warming causes a range of negative impacts on plants especially due to rapid
changes in temperatures, alterations of rainfall patterns, floods or drought conditions, and …

Molecular and hormonal mechanisms regulating fleshy fruit ripening

S Li, K Chen, D Grierson - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
This article focuses on the molecular and hormonal mechanisms underlying the control of
fleshy fruit ripening and quality. Recent research on tomato shows that ethylene, acting …

Roles of microRNAs in abiotic stress response and characteristics regulation of plant

F Zhang, J Yang, N Zhang, J Wu, H Si - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of non-coding endogenous small RNAs (long 20–24
nucleotides) that negatively regulate eukaryotes gene expression at post-transcriptional …

MicroRNAs as potential targets for abiotic stress tolerance in plants

V Shriram, V Kumar, RM Devarumath… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The microRNAs (miRNAs) are small (20–24 nt) sized, non-coding, single stranded
riboregulator RNAs abundant in higher organisms. Recent findings have established that …

Interacting TCP and NLP transcription factors control plant responses to nitrate availability

P Guan, JJ Ripoll, R Wang, L Vuong… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Plants have evolved adaptive strategies that involve transcriptional networks to cope with
and survive environmental challenges. Key transcriptional regulators that mediate …

Roles of RIN and ethylene in tomato fruit ripening and ripening‐associated traits

S Li, B Zhu, J Pirrello, C Xu, B Zhang… - New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Summary RIPENING INHIBITOR (RIN)‐deficient fruits generated by CRISPR/Cas9 initiated
partial ripening at a similar time to wild‐type (WT) fruits but only 10% WT concentrations of …

Auxin response factors: output control in auxin biology

M Roosjen, S Paque, D Weijers - Journal of experimental botany, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The phytohormone auxin is involved in almost all developmental processes in land plants.
Most, if not all, of these processes are mediated by changes in gene expression. Auxin acts …

Genetic control of meristem arrest and life span in Arabidopsis by a FRUITFULL-APETALA2 pathway

V Balanzà, I Martínez-Fernández, S Sato… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Monocarpic plants have a single reproductive cycle in their lives, where life span is
determined by the coordinated arrest of all meristems, or global proliferative arrest (GPA) …

Auxin EvoDevo: conservation and diversification of genes regulating auxin biosynthesis, transport, and signaling

MS Matthes, NB Best, JM Robil, S Malcomber… - Molecular Plant, 2019 - cell.com
The phytohormone auxin has been shown to be of pivotal importance in growth and
development of land plants. The underlying molecular players involved in auxin …

Dual specificity and target gene selection by the MADS-domain protein FRUITFULL

H Van Mourik, P Chen, C Smaczniak, S Boeren… - Nature Plants, 2023 - nature.com
How transcription factors attain their target gene specificity and how this specificity may be
modulated, acquiring different regulatory functions through the development of plant tissues …