Enhancing crop resilience to combined abiotic and biotic stress through the dissection of physiological and molecular crosstalk

C Kissoudis, C van de Wiel, RGF Visser… - Frontiers in plant …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Plants growing in their natural habitats are often challenged simultaneously by multiple
stress factors, both abiotic and biotic. Research has so far been limited to responses to …

Identification of cis-regulatory elements by chromatin structure

Z Lu, WA Ricci, RJ Schmitz, X Zhang - Current opinion in plant biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•cis-regulatory elements are enriched within accessible chromatin regions
(ACRs).•Sequence variation within ACRs disproportionately affects transcription.• …

Genome-wide expression pattern analyses of the Arabidopsis leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinases

Y Wu, Q Xun, Y Guo, J Zhang, K Cheng, T Shi, K He… - Molecular plant, 2016 - cell.com
Receptor-like protein kinases (RLKs) are a large group of transmembrane proteins playing
critical roles in cell–cell and cell–environment communications. Based on extracellular …

Brassinosteroid-induced gene repression requires specific and tight promoter binding of BIL1/BZR1 via DNA shape readout

S Nosaki, N Mitsuda, S Sakamoto, K Kusubayashi… - Nature Plants, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract BRZ-INSENSITIVE-LONG 1 (BIL1)/BRASSINAZOLE-RESISTANT 1 (BZR1) and its
homologues are plant-specific transcription factors that convert the signalling of the …

WRKY13 Enhances Cadmium Tolerance by Promoting D-CYSTEINE DESULFHYDRASE and Hydrogen Sulfide Production

Q Zhang, W Cai, TT Ji, L Ye, YT Lu, TT Yuan - Plant Physiology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Hydrogen sulfide (H2S), a plant gasotransmitter, functions in the plant response to
cadmium (Cd) stress, implying a role for cysteine desulfhydrase in producing H2S in this …

Induced and natural variation of promoter length modulates the photoperiodic response of FLOWERING LOCUS T

L Liu, J Adrian, A Pankin, J Hu, X Dong… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) regulates the floral transition in many plant species by
integrating environmental seasonal signals and internal cues. Here we show that two …

A key general stress response motif is regulated non‐uniformly by CAMTA transcription factors

G Benn, CQ Wang, DR Hicks, J Stein… - The Plant …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Plants cope with environmental challenges by rapidly triggering and synchronizing
mechanisms governing stress‐specific and general stress response (GSR) networks. The …

A novel NAC family transcription factor SPR suppresses seed storage protein synthesis in wheat

L Shen, G Luo, Y Song, J Xu, JJ Ji… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The synthesis of seed storage protein (SSP) is mainly regulated at the transcriptional level.
However, few transcriptional regulators of SSP synthesis have been characterized in …

Tuning promoter boundaries improves regulatory motif discovery in nonmodel plants: the peach example

N Ksouri, JA Castro-Mondragón… - Plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The identification of functional elements encoded in plant genomes is necessary to
understand gene regulation. Although much attention has been paid to model species like …

Expression Pattern and Functional Analyses of Arabidopsis Guard Cell-Enriched GDSL Lipases

C Xiao, H Guo, J Tang, J Li, X Yao, H Hu - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
There are more than 100 GDSL lipases in Arabidopsis, but only a few members have been
functionally investigated. Moreover, no reports have ever given a comprehensive analysis of …