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... Heat stress disrupts algal growth, development, and physiological processes, such as photosynthesis, and eventually decreases seaweed productivity. Previous studies of crop plants have revealed that exogenous application of phytohormones prior or parallel to stress can alleviate the negative effects of abiotic stressors, including heat stress. However, there is limited information on phytohormone- ...
Mohamed N. Helaly; Hanan M. El-Hoseiny; Nabil I. Elsheery; Hazem M. Kalaji; Sergio de los Santos-Villalobos; Jacek Wróbel; Islam F. Hassan; Maybelle S. Gaballah; Lamyaa A. Abdelrhman; Amany M. Mira; Shamel M. Alam-Eldein
... Plant growth, development, and productivity are adversely affected under drought conditions. Previous findings indicated that 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) and 24-epibrassinolide (EBL) play an important role in the plant response to adverse environmental conditions. This study demonstrated the role of ALA and EBL on oxidative stress and photosynthetic capacity of drought-stressed ‘Williams’ banana g ...
... Salt stress restricts plant growth and productivity worldwide. Zinc finger proteins play important roles in response to various abiotic plant stresses. In this research, we identified and characterized the ZAT17 gene in Malus domestica, which encodes a C2H2-type zinc finger protein. MdZAT17 has two typical conserved zinc finger domains and an ERF-associated amphiphilic repression (EAR) motif. Prom ...
... NAC transcription factors play critical roles in regulating drought stress. However, the drought-responsive NAC transcription factors are largely unexplored in wheat. In this study, we isolated a NAC gene, TaNAC5D-2, and characterized the function of TaNAC5D-2 as a positive regulator of drought tolerance. The expression level of TaNAC5D-2 was induced under drought or abscisic acid treatment. Trans ...
... Transcription factors (TFs) fused to the SRDX (a modified repressor domain at the C-terminal region of Arabidopsis SUPERMAN (SUPRD) with the sequence of LDLDLELRLGFA) motif repression domain at their C terminus, generating a chimeric repressor, could act as a dominant suppressor and overcome problems related to functional redundancy between TFs. Here, we demonstrate that transgenic Arabidopsis con ...
Jianing Mi; Jose G. Vallarino; Ivan Petřík; Ondřej Novák; Sandra M. Correa; Monika Chodasiewicz; Michel Havaux; Manuel Rodriguez-Concepcion; Salim Al-Babili; Alisdair R. Fernie; Aleksandra Skirycz; Juan C. Moreno
... Improving yield, nutritional value and tolerance to abiotic stress are major targets of current breeding and biotechnological approaches that aim at increasing crop production and ensuring food security. Metabolic engineering of carotenoids, the precursor of vitamin-A and plant hormones that regulate plant growth and response to adverse growth conditions, has been mainly focusing on provitamin A b ...
... Xanthine dehydrogenase, a member of the molybdenum enzyme family, participates in purine metabolism and catalyzes the generation of ureides from xanthine and hypoxanthine. However, the mechanisms by which xanthine dehydrogenase affects rice growth and development are poorly understood. In the present study, we identified a mutant with early leaf senescence and reduced tillering that we named early ...
... Paeonia ostii is an authorized novel vegetable oil crop due to its seeds rich in unsaturated fatty acids (UFAs) especially α-linolenic acid (ALA), which overweight the current available edible oil. However, little is known on the regulation mechanism of UFAs biosynthesis during its seed development. Here, we used transcriptome and proteome data combining phytochemistry means to uncover the relatio ...
... Ubiquitination-mediated post-translational modification of proteins is a pivotal regulatory mechanism involved in the growth and development of the plant. The Arabidopsis Tóxicos en Levadura (ATL) family is a group of RING-type ubiquitin ligases (E3) and ATL8 is a membrane-localized protein. Here, a reverse genetics approach was used to elucidate the role of ATL8 in phosphate (Pi) homeostasis. Def ...
... The sesquiterpene abscisic acid (ABA) is an ancient stress response molecule. In plants, many ABA-dependent processes operate via PYR/PYL/RCAR receptor complexes, but results from several studies have suggested that not all plant responses function through this mechanism. Since the ABA-dependent processes of animals and humans also operate in the absence of such receptors, we hypothesize that plan ...
... Saline–alkaline stress inhibits plant growth and reduces yield. Abscisic acid (ABA) is an important plant hormone in response to plant stress. However, the role of ABA under saline–alkaline stress is poorly understood. Therefore, the mechanisms of ABA accumulation and resistance improvement in tomato seedlings were studied under saline–alkaline stress. We investigated whether ABA accumulation impr ...
... BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Viticulture will be particularly affected by increasing drought and heat waves in the future. It is of interest to find traits that indicate stress before symptoms become apparent. We investigated whether the commonly used traits, proline and abscisic acid (ABA) biosynthesis, are suitable markers for heat, drought or combined stress and whether gene expression of key enzymes o ...
Pseudotsuga menziesii; abscisic acid; auxins; callus; cytokinins; drought tolerance; histology; organ culture; plant growth; somatic embryogenesis; trees; wood quality; Europe
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... Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) is one of Europe’s most important non-native tree species due to its drought tolerance as well as timber quality and yield. To obtain superior seed from selected parental trees, breeding programs had been established in seed orchards. Douglas fir seed is used as source material for somatic embryogenesis with the aim to select elite genotypes invaluable for clona ...
... MAIN CONCLUSION: Elevated temperatures suppress cell division in developing petunia buds leading to smaller flowers, mediated by ABA. Flower size is one of the most important showy traits in determining pollinator attraction, and a central factor determining the quality of floricultural products. Whereas the adverse effects of elevated temperatures on showy traits have been described in detail, it ...
... Frequently changing environmental conditions pose unwarranted threat to plants life and impose serious penalties in terms of arrested growth, metabolism and ultimately the yield. Being rooted, plants cannot avoid the stresses but equipped well to survive and produce. Among the stress modulatory responses, an isoprenoid phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) proved its significance by regulating the grow ...
Richard A. Hill; Johanna Wong‐Bajracharya; Sidra Anwar; Donovin Coles; Mei Wang; Anna Lipzen; Vivian Ng; Igor V. Grigoriev; Francis Martin; Ian C. Anderson; Christopher I. Cazzonelli; Thomas Jeffries; Krista L. Plett; Jonathan M. Plett
... The pathways regulated in ectomycorrhizal (EcM) plant hosts during the establishment of symbiosis are not as well understood when compared to the functional stages of this mutualistic interaction. Our study used the EcM host Eucalyptus grandis to elucidate symbiosis‐regulated pathways across the three phases of this interaction. Using a combination of RNA sequencing and metabolomics we studied bot ...
abscisic acid; active ingredients; biomass; biotechnology; carbon metabolism; carotenoids; drought tolerance; exudation; jasmonic acid; leaves; methyl jasmonate; oxygenases; photosynthesis; plant growth; rain; stomatal conductance; sugars; tomatoes; water content; water uptake
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... In rain-fed semi-arid agricultural areas, unevenly distributed seasonal rainfall influences tomato production. Meanwhile, jasmonic acid, an essential plant hormone, enhances plant resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses; however, its effect on tomato drought resistance remains unclear. In this study, a series of pot experiments were conducted to investigate the effects elicited via addition of e ...
... Bacteria-facilitated phytoextraction has been gaining recognition for the phytoremediation of heavy metal (HM)-contaminated soils. Nevertheless, it remains unclear whether catabolizing abscisic acid (ABA) in hyperaccumulating plants via rhizobacteria could facilitate HM phytoextraction. In this study, inoculation with the ABA-catabolizing bacterium, Rhodococcus qingshengii, increased HM (Cd, Zn, P ...
... Seed germination is a physiological process regulated by multiple factors. Abscisic acid (ABA) can inhibit seed germination to improve seedling survival under conditions of abiotic stress, and this process is often regulated by light signals. Constitutive photomorphogenic 1 (COP1) is an upstream core repressor of light signals and is involved in several ABA responses. Here, we demonstrate that COP ...
... The expression of genes that control germination-related processes in corn (Zea mays L.) is influenced by environmental factors. Germination of seeds may be facilitated by hormonal priming. The purpose of this investigation was to quantify the effects of different germination temperatures [(5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, and 40°C), NaCl-induced stress (0, −0.4, −0.8, and −1.2 MPa), and priming solutio ...