WRKY transcription factors and plant defense responses: latest discoveries and future prospects

SH Wani, S Anand, B Singh, A Bohra, R Joshi - Plant Cell Reports, 2021 - Springer
Key message WRKY transcription factors are among the largest families of transcriptional
regulators. In this review, their pivotal role in modulating various signal transduction …

Molecular networks of seed size control in plants

N Li, R Xu, Y Li - Annual review of plant biology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The size of seeds affects not only evolutionary fitness but also grain yield of crops.
Understanding the mechanisms controlling seed size has become an important research …

Arabidopsis WRKY46, WRKY54, and WRKY70 transcription factors are involved in brassinosteroid-regulated plant growth and drought responses

J Chen, TM Nolan, H Ye, M Zhang, H Tong, P Xin… - The Plant …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Plant steroid hormones, brassinosteroids (BRs), play important roles in growth and
development. BR signaling controls the activities of BRASSINOSTERIOD INSENSITIVE1 …

The WRKY transcription factor family in model plants and crops

F Chen, Y Hu, A Vannozzi, K Wu, H Cai… - Critical Reviews in …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The WRKY gene family in flowering plants encodes a large group of transcription factors
(TFs) that play essential roles in diverse stress responses, developmental, and physiological …

Drought-responsive WRKY transcription factor genes TaWRKY1 and TaWRKY33 from wheat confer drought and/or heat resistance in Arabidopsis

GH He, JY Xu, YX Wang, JM Liu, PS Li, M Chen… - BMC plant biology, 2016 - Springer
Background Drought stress is one of the major causes of crop loss. WRKY transcription
factors, as one of the largest transcription factor families, play important roles in regulation of …

WRKY transcription factors: evolution, binding, and action

X Chen, C Li, H Wang, Z Guo - Phytopathology Research, 2019 - Springer
The WRKY transcription factor (TF) gene family expanded greatly in the evolutionary
process from green algae to flowering plants through whole genome, segmental, and …

Abscisic acid promotes jasmonic acid biosynthesis via a 'SAPK10‐bZIP72‐AOC' pathway to synergistically inhibit seed germination in rice (Oryza sativa)

Y Wang, Y Hou, J Qiu, H Wang, S Wang… - New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abscisic acid (ABA) and jasmonic acid (JA) both inhibit seed germination, but their
interactions during this process remain elusive. Here, we report the identification of a …

Regulation of specialized metabolism by WRKY transcription factors

C Schluttenhofer, L Yuan - Plant physiology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
WRKY transcription factors (TF s) are well known for regulating plant abiotic and biotic stress
tolerance. However, much less is known about how WRKY TF s affect plant-specialized …

MAP kinase cascades in plant development and immune signaling

T Sun, Y Zhang - EMBO reports, 2022 - embopress.org
Mitogen‐activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades are important signaling modules
regulating diverse biological processes. During the past 20 years, much progress has been …

WRKY53 integrates classic brassinosteroid signaling and the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway to regulate rice architecture and seed size

X Tian, M He, E Mei, B Zhang, J Tang, M Xu, J Liu… - The Plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
In rice (Oryza sativa) and other plants, plant architecture and seed size are closely related to
yield. Brassinosteroid (BR) signaling and the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) …