WRKY transcription factors and plant defense responses: latest discoveries and future prospects

SH Wani, S Anand, B Singh, A Bohra, R Joshi - Plant Cell Reports, 2021 - Springer
Key message WRKY transcription factors are among the largest families of transcriptional
regulators. In this review, their pivotal role in modulating various signal transduction …

Impact of climate change on crops adaptation and strategies to tackle its outcome: A review

A Raza, A Razzaq, SS Mehmood, X Zou, X Zhang, Y Lv… - Plants, 2019 - mdpi.com
Agriculture and climate change are internally correlated with each other in various aspects,
as climate change is the main cause of biotic and abiotic stresses, which have adverse …

WRKY transcription factors (TFs): Molecular switches to regulate drought, temperature, and salinity stresses in plants

MA Khoso, A Hussain, FN Ritonga, Q Ali… - Frontiers in plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The WRKY transcription factor (TF) belongs to one of the major plant protein superfamilies.
The WRKY TF gene family plays an important role in the regulation of transcriptional …

Function and mechanism of WRKY transcription factors in abiotic stress responses of plants

W Li, S Pang, Z Lu, B Jin - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
The WRKY gene family is a plant-specific transcription factor (TF) group, playing important
roles in many different response pathways of diverse abiotic stresses (drought, saline, alkali …

Transcription factors as key molecular target to strengthen the drought stress tolerance in plants

M Manna, T Thakur, O Chirom, R Mandlik… - Physiologia …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Amid apprehension of global climate change, crop plants are inevitably confronted with a
myriad of abiotic stress factors during their growth that inflicts a serious threat to their …

PlantPAN3. 0: a new and updated resource for reconstructing transcriptional regulatory networks from ChIP-seq experiments in plants

CN Chow, TY Lee, YC Hung, GZ Li… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Plant Promoter Analysis Navigator (PlantPAN; http://PlantPAN. itps. ncku. edu.
tw/) is an effective resource for predicting regulatory elements and reconstructing …

WRKY transcription factors: molecular regulation and stress responses in plants

UJ Phukan, GS Jeena, RK Shukla - Frontiers in plant science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Plants in their natural habitat have to face multiple stresses simultaneously. Evolutionary
adaptation of developmental, physiological, and biochemical parameters give advantage …

Progress in soybean functional genomics over the past decade

M Zhang, S Liu, Z Wang, Y Yuan… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soybean is one of the most important oilseed and fodder crops. Benefiting from the efforts of
soybean breeders and the development of breeding technology, large number of …

WRKY transcription factors in plant responses to stresses

J Jiang, S Ma, N Ye, M Jiang, J Cao… - Journal of integrative …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The WRKY gene family is among the largest families of transcription factors (TFs) in higher
plants. By regulating the plant hormone signal transduction pathway, these TFs play critical …

Engineering abiotic stress tolerance via CRISPR/Cas-mediated genome editing

SA Zafar, SSA Zaidi, Y Gaba… - Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abiotic stresses, including drought, salinity, temperature, and heavy metals, pose a major
challenge for crop production and cause substantial yield reduction worldwide. Breeding …