Plant promoters: their identification, characterization, and role in gene regulation

L Villao-Uzho, T Chávez-Navarrete, R Pacheco-Coello… - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
One of the strategies to overcome diseases or abiotic stress in crops is the use of improved
varieties. Genetic improvement could be accomplished through different methods, including …

Plant promoters and terminators for high-precision bioengineering

EG Brooks, E Elorriaga, Y Liu, JR Duduit… - BioDesign …, 2023 - spj.science.org
High-precision bioengineering and synthetic biology require fine-tuning gene expression at
both transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels. Gene transcription is tightly regulated by …

Improving photosynthesis through multidisciplinary efforts: The next frontier of photosynthesis research

XG Zhu, M Hasanuzzaman, A Jajoo… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The light-dependent release of oxygen from plants was first discovered in the 1770s by
Joseph Priestley and Jan Ingenhousz. More recently, the enzyme-catalyzed pathway of …

Plant responses to drought stress: microRNAs in action

W Islam, A Idrees, A Waheed, F Zeng - Environmental Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Drought is common in most regions of the world, and it has a significant impact on plant
growth and development. Plants, on the other hand, have evolved their own defense …

RNA Pol III promoters—Key players in precisely targeted plant genome editing

SD Kor, N Chowdhury, AK Keot, K Yogendra… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeat (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated
protein Cas) system is a powerful and highly precise gene-editing tool in basic and applied …

Opportunities and avenues for achieving crop climate resilience

T Zenda, N Wang, X Yan, A Dong, Q Yang… - Environmental and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Global crop production and food-and-nutrition security are severely threatened by climate
change-induced effects, including compound environmental stresses and dwindling crop …

Genome-Wide Characterization and Phylogenetic and Stress Response Expression Analysis of the MADS-Box Gene Family in Litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.)

J Yang, R Chen, W Liu, X Xiang, C Fan - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
The MADS-box protein is an important transcription factor in plants and plays an important
role in regulating the plant abiotic stress response. In this study, a total of 94 MADS-box …

Plant synthetic promoters: advancement and prospective

A Khan, N Nasim, B Pudhuvai, B Koul, SK Upadhyay… - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
Native/endogenous promoters have several fundamental limitations in terms of their size,
Cis-elements distribution/patterning, and mode of induction, which is ultimately reflected in …

Temporally gene knockout using heat shock–inducible genome‐editing system in plants

Z Liang, S Wei, Y Wu, Y Guo, B Zhang… - The Plant …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)/CRISPR‐associated
nuclease 9 (Cas9) has emerged as a powerful tool to generate targeted loss‐of‐function …

Using salicylic acid‐responsive promoters to drive the expression of jasmonic acid‐regulated genes enhances plant resistance to whiteflies

H Wu, WH Han, KL Liang, JX Wang… - Pest Management …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Jasmonic acid (JA) is an important phytohormone used to defend against
herbivores, but it does not respond to whitefly feeding. Conversely, another phytohormone …