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 …

Transcription factors and plants response to drought stress: current understanding and future directions

R Joshi, SH Wani, B Singh, A Bohra, ZA Dar… - Frontiers in plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Increasing vulnerability of plants to a variety of stresses such as drought, salt and extreme
temperatures poses a global threat to sustained growth and productivity of major crops. Of …

Recent advances in utilizing transcription factors to improve plant abiotic stress tolerance by transgenic technology

H Wang, H Wang, H Shao, X Tang - Frontiers in plant science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Agricultural production and quality are adversely affected by various abiotic stresses
worldwide and this will be exacerbated by the deterioration of global climate. To feed a …

Plant transcription factors involved in drought and associated stresses

M Hrmova, SS Hussain - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Transcription factors (TFs) play a significant role in signal transduction networks spanning
the perception of a stress signal and the expression of corresponding stress-responsive …

Ion homeostasis for salinity tolerance in plants: A molecular approach

I Amin, S Rasool, MA Mir, W Wani… - Physiologia …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Soil salinity is one of the major environmental stresses faced by the plants. Sodium chloride
is the most important salt responsible for inducing salt stress by disrupting the osmotic …

Plant drought stress tolerance: Understanding its physiological, biochemical and molecular mechanisms

SS Bashir, A Hussain, SJ Hussain… - Biotechnology & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Plants are vulnerable to many environmental constraints which include drought, salinity,
extreme temperatures, heavy metals, etc., thereby posing damage to the development and …

The role of ZIP transporters and group F bZIP transcription factors in the Zn‐deficiency response of wheat (Triticum aestivum)

NP Evens, P Buchner, LE Williams… - The Plant …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the molecular basis of zinc (Zn) uptake and transport in staple cereal crops is
critical for improving both Zn content and tolerance to low‐Zn soils. This study demonstrates …

Genome-wide systematic characterization of the bZIP transcriptional factor family in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)

D Li, F Fu, H Zhang, F Song - BMC genomics, 2015 - Springer
Background Transcription factors of the basic leucine zipper (bZIP) family represent
exclusively in eukaryotes and have been shown to regulate diverse biological processes in …

BACH1, the master regulator gene: A novel candidate target for cancer therapy

S Davudian, B Mansoori, N Shajari, A Mohammadi… - Gene, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract BACH1 (BTB and CNC homology 1, basic leucine zipper transcription factor 1) is a
transcriptional factor and a member of cap 'n'collar (CNC) and basic region leucine zipper …

Identification and characterization of the bZIP transcription factor family and its expression in response to abiotic stresses in sesame

Y Wang, Y Zhang, R Zhou, K Dossa, J Yu, D Li, A Liu… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Basic leucine zipper (bZIP) gene family is one of the largest transcription factor families in
plants, and members of this family play important roles in multiple biological processes such …