Proline is a multifunctional amino acid that is accumulated in high concentrations in plants
under various stress conditions. Proline accumulation is intimately connected to many …

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 …

Soil flooding creates composite and complex stress in plants known as either submergence
or waterlogging stress depending on the depth of the water table. In nature, these stresses …

Fine-tuning quantitative traits for continuous subtle phenotypes is highly advantageous. We
engineer the highly conserved upstream open reading frame (uORF) of FvebZIPs1. 1 in …

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 …

Soil salinity has become an increasingly serious problem worldwide, greatly limiting crop
development and yield, and posing a major challenge to plant breeding. Basic leucine …

Maize (Zea mays) originated in tropical areas and is thus susceptible to low temperatures,
which pose a major threat to maize production. Our understanding of the molecular basis of …

The bacterial pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum causes wilt disease on Arabidopsis
thaliana and tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). This pathogen uses type III effectors to inhibit …

Reactive electrophilic species are ubiquitous in plant cells, where they contribute to specific
redox-regulated signaling events. Redox signaling is known to modulate gene expression …

In nature, heavy metal (HM) stress is one of the most destructive abiotic stresses for plants.
Heavy metals produce toxicity by targeting key molecules and important processes in plant …