Abscisic acid and abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants

SK Sah, KR Reddy, J Li - Frontiers in plant science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Abiotic stress is a primary threat to fulfill the demand of agricultural production to feed the
world in coming decades. Plants reduce growth and development process during stress …

Role of miRNAs and siRNAs in biotic and abiotic stress responses of plants

B Khraiwesh, JK Zhu, J Zhu - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene …, 2012 - Elsevier
Small, non-coding RNAs are a distinct class of regulatory RNAs in plants and animals that
control a variety of biological processes. In plants, several classes of small RNAs with …

The role of WRKY transcription factors in plant immunity

SP Pandey, IE Somssich - Plant physiology, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Plants constantly face a plethora of abiotic and biotic stresses in their natural habitat.
Adapting to such changes requires a great degree of phenotypic plasticity that is mainly …

Differences and commonalities of plant responses to single and combined stresses

H Zhang, U Sonnewald - The Plant Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In natural or agricultural environments, plants are constantly exposed to a wide range of
biotic and abiotic stresses. Given the forecasted global climate changes, plants will cope …

MicroRNA166 modulates cadmium tolerance and accumulation in rice

Y Ding, S Gong, Y Wang, F Wang, H Bao, J Sun… - Plant …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are 20-to 24-nucleotide small noncoding RNAs that regulate
gene expression in eukaryotic organisms. Several plant miRNAs, such as miR166, have …

Emerging roles of microRNAs in the mediation of drought stress response in plants

Y Ding, Y Tao, C Zhu - Journal of experimental botany, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Drought is a major environmental stress factor that limits agricultural production worldwide.
Plants employ complex mechanisms of gene regulation in response to drought stress …

A genome-wide characterization of microRNA genes in maize

L Zhang, JM Chia, S Kumari, JC Stein, Z Liu… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, non-coding RNAs that play essential roles in plant growth,
development, and stress response. We conducted a genome-wide survey of maize miRNA …

MicroRNAs from plants to animals, do they define a new messenger for communication?

Z Li, R Xu, N Li - Nutrition & metabolism, 2018 - Springer
MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a class of single-stranded non-coding RNA of about 22 nucleotides,
are potent regulators of gene expression existing in both plants and animals. Recent studies …

Microarray-based analysis of cadmium-responsive microRNAs in rice (Oryza sativa)

Y Ding, Z Chen, C Zhu - Journal of experimental botany, 2011 - academic.oup.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small non-coding RNAs that negatively regulate specific
target mRNAs at the post-transcriptional level. Plant miRNAs have been implicated in …

Profiling of cold-stress-responsive miRNAs in rice by microarrays

DK Lv, X Bai, Y Li, XD Ding, Y Ge, H Cai, W Ji, N Wu… - Gene, 2010 - Elsevier
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small single-stranded RNAs with a length of about 21nt; these non-
coding RNAs regulate developmental and stress responses in plants by cleaving mRNAs …