Dynamic environmental changes such as extreme temperature, water scarcity and high
salinity affect plant growth, survival, and reproduction. Plants have evolved sophisticated …

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 …

Ethylene Responsive Factor (ERF) subfamily comprise the largest number of proteins in the
plant AP2/ERF superfamily, and have been most extensively studied on the biological …

Members of the AP2/ERF transcription factor family play critical roles in plant development,
biosynthesis of key metabolites, and stress response. A detailed study was performed to …

Impacts of climate change like global warming, drought, flooding, and other extreme events
are posing severe challenges to global crop production. Contribution of Brassica napus …

Abiotic stress is an adverse environmental factor that severely affects plant growth and
development, and plants have developed complex regulatory mechanisms to adapt to these …

Given the current rise in global temperatures, heat stress has become a major abiotic
challenge affecting the growth and development of various crops and reducing their …

Background APETALA2/ethylene responsive factor (AP2/ERF) transcription factors are a
plant-specific family of transcription factors and one of the largest families of transcription …

Spartina alterniflora is a halophyte that can survive in high‐salinity environments, and it is
phylogenetically close to important cereal crops, such as maize and rice. It is of scientific …

Plants have evolved distinct defense strategies in response to a diverse range of chewing
and sucking insect herbivory. While chewing insect herbivores, exemplified by caterpillars …