Plant growth and productivity are greatly affected by abiotic stresses such as drought,
salinity, and temperature. Drought stress is one of the major limitations to crop productivity …

Transcription factors are multi-domain proteins that regulate gene expression in eukaryotic
organisms. They are one of the largest families of proteins, which are structurally and …

The Arabidopsis abscisic acid (ABA)–insensitive abi5 mutants have pleiotropic defects in
ABA response, including decreased sensitivity to ABA inhibition of germination and altered …

AtMYB44 belongs to the R2R3 MYB subgroup 22 transcription factor family in Arabidopsis
(Arabidopsis thaliana). Treatment with abscisic acid (ABA) induced AtMYB44 transcript …

We reported earlier that the tobacco early ethylene-responsive gene NtER1 encodes a
calmodulin-binding protein (Yang, T., and Poovaiah, BW (2000) J. Biol. Chem. 275, 38467 …

Background Members of the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor family perform
indispensable functions in various biological processes, such as plant growth, seed …

Background Agarwood is an expensive resinous heartwood derived from Aquilaria plants
that is widely used in traditional medicines, incense and perfume. Only wounded trees can …

The involvement of two R2R3-MYB genes from Pinus taeda L., PtMYB1 and PtMYB8, in
phenylpropanoid metabolism and secondary cell wall biogenesis was investigated in planta …

The basic leucine (Leu) zipper (bZIP) proteins compose a family of transcriptional regulators
present exclusively in eukaryotes. The bZIP proteins characteristically harbor a bZIP domain …

Under the vast umbrella of Plant Sciences resides a plethora of highly specialized fields.
Botanists, agronomists, horticulturists, geneticists, and physiologists each employ a different …