Transcription factors involved in drought tolerance and their possible role in developing drought tolerant cultivars with emphasis on wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

V Gahlaut, V Jaiswal, A Kumar, PK Gupta - Theoretical and Applied …, 2016 - Springer
Key message TFs involved in drought tolerance in plants may be utilized in future for
developing drought tolerant cultivars of wheat and some other crops. Abstract Plants have …

Plant salinity stress, sensing, and its mitigation through WRKY

GK Rai, S Mishra, R Chouhan, M Mushtaq… - Frontiers in plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Salinity or salt stress has deleterious effects on plant growth and development. It imposes
osmotic, ionic, and secondary stresses, including oxidative stress on the plants and is …

Genome-wide investigation of WRKY gene family in pineapple: evolution and expression profiles during development and stress

T Xie, C Chen, C Li, J Liu, C Liu, Y He - BMC genomics, 2018 - Springer
Background WRKY proteins comprise a large family of transcription factors that play
important roles in many aspects of physiological processes and adaption to environment …

The evolution of WRKY transcription factors

CI Rinerson, RC Rabara, P Tripathi, QJ Shen… - BMC plant biology, 2015 - Springer
Background The availability of increasing numbers of sequenced genomes has
necessitated a re-evaluation of the evolution of the WRKY transcription factor family. Modern …

Genome-wide analysis of the WRKY gene family in the cucumber genome and transcriptome-wide identification of WRKY transcription factors that respond to biotic …

C Chen, X Chen, J Han, W Lu, Z Ren - BMC plant biology, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) is an economically important
vegetable crop species. However, it is susceptible to various abiotic and biotic stresses …

The maize WRKY transcription factor ZmWRKY17 negatively regulates salt stress tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis plants

R Cai, W Dai, C Zhang, Y Wang, M Wu, Y Zhao, Q Ma… - Planta, 2017 - Springer
Main conclusion We cloned and characterized the ZmWRKY17 gene from maize.
Overexpression of ZmWRKY17 in Arabidopsis led to increased sensitivity to salt stress and …

Genome-wide identification of WRKY family genes and their response to cold stress in Vitis vinifera

L Wang, W Zhu, L Fang, X Sun, L Su, Z Liang, N Wang… - BMC plant biology, 2014 - Springer
Background WRKY transcription factors are one of the largest families of transcriptional
regulators in plants. WRKY genes are not only found to play significant roles in biotic and …

Genome-wide analysis of WRKY gene family in the sesame genome and identification of the WRKY genes involved in responses to abiotic stresses

D Li, P Liu, J Yu, L Wang, K Dossa, Y Zhang, R Zhou… - BMC plant biology, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) is one of the world's most important oil
crops. However, it is susceptible to abiotic stresses in general, and to waterlogging and …

Transcriptome-wide identification of bread wheat WRKY transcription factors in response to drought stress

S Okay, E Derelli, T Unver - Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 2014 - Springer
The WRKY superfamily of transcription factors was shown to be involved in biotic and abiotic
stress responses in plants such as wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), one of the major crops …

Elucidating the evolutionary conserved DNA-binding specificities of WRKY transcription factors by molecular dynamics and in vitro binding assays

LH Brand, NM Fischer, K Harter… - Nucleic Acids …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
WRKY transcription factors constitute a large protein family in plants that is involved in the
regulation of developmental processes and responses to biotic or abiotic stimuli. The …