Identification and functional characterization of plant MiRNA under salt stress shed light on salinity resistance improvement through MiRNA manipulation in crops

T Xu, L Zhang, Z Yang, Y Wei, T Dong - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Salinity, as a major environmental stressor, limits plant growth, development, and crop yield
remarkably. However, plants evolve their own defense systems in response to salt stress …

Recent developments in multi-omics and breeding strategies for abiotic stress tolerance in maize (Zea mays L.)

MQU Farooqi, G Nawaz, SH Wani… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
High-throughput sequencing technologies (HSTs) have revolutionized crop breeding. The
advent of these technologies has enabled the identification of beneficial quantitative trait loci …

Osa-miR169 Negatively Regulates Rice Immunity against the Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

Y Li, SL Zhao, JL Li, XH Hu, H Wang, XL Cao… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
miR169 is a conserved microRNA (miRNA) family involved in plant development and stress-
induced responses. However, how miR169 functions in rice immunity remains unclear …

miR169q and NUCLEAR FACTOR YA8 enhance salt tolerance by activating PEROXIDASE1 expression in response to ROS

L Xing, M Zhu, M Luan, M Zhang, L Jin, Y Liu… - Plant …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
miR169q and NUCLEAR FACTOR YA8 enhance salt tolerance by activating PEROXIDASE1
expression in response to ROS | Plant Physiology | Oxford Academic Skip to Main Content …

SbWRKY30 enhances the drought tolerance of plants and regulates a drought stress-responsive gene, SbRD19, in sorghum

Z Yang, X Chi, F Guo, X Jin, H Luo, A Hawar… - Journal of Plant …, 2020 - Elsevier
WRKY transcription factors have been suggested to play important roles in response and
adaptation to drought stress. However, how sorghum WRKY transcription factors function in …

Drought stress in maize causes differential acclimation responses of glutathione and sulfur metabolism in leaves and roots

N Ahmad, M Malagoli, M Wirtz, R Hell - BMC Plant Biology, 2016 - Springer
Background Drought is the most important environmental stress that limits crop yield in a
global warming world. Despite the compelling evidence of an important role of oxidized and …

miR169o and ZmNF‐YA13 act in concert to coordinate the expression of ZmYUC1 that determines seed size and weight in maize kernels

M Zhang, H Zheng, L Jin, L Xing, J Zou… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play key regulatory roles in seed development and emerge as new
key targets for engineering grain size and yield. The Zma‐miRNA169 family is highly …

Overexpression of soybean miR169c confers increased drought stress sensitivity in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana

Y Yu, Z Ni, Y Wang, H Wan, Z Hu, Q Jiang, X Sun… - Plant Science, 2019 - Elsevier
The miR169 family, a large-scale microRNA gene family conserved in plants, is involved in
stress responses, although how soybean miR169 functions in response to drought stress …

ZmNF-YB16 Overexpression Improves Drought Resistance and Yield by Enhancing Photosynthesis and the Antioxidant Capacity of Maize Plants

B Wang, Z Li, Q Ran, P Li, Z Peng… - Frontiers in plant science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
ZmNF-YB16 is a basic NF-YB superfamily member and a member of a transcription factor
complex composed of NF-YA, NF-YB, and NF-YC in maize. ZmNF-YB16 was transformed …

Root precursors of microRNAs in wild emmer and modern wheats show major differences in response to drought stress

BA Akpinar, M Kantar, H Budak - Functional & integrative genomics, 2015 - Springer
MicroRNAs, small regulatory molecules with significant impacts on the transcriptional
network of all living organisms, have been the focus of several studies conducted mostly on …