GmTRAB1, a Basic Leucine Zipper Transcription Factor, Positively Regulates Drought Tolerance in Soybean (Glycine max. L)
Hui Li, Qiu-Yu Zhang, Ping Xu, Xiao-Hua Wang, Sheng-Jie Dai, Zhen-Ning Liu, Meng Xu, Xue Cao, Xiao-Yu Cui · 2024
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Description
Drought is soybean's great enemy, and switch proteins called bZIP factors help plants endure it. Hui Li and co-authors study in 2024 one such gene, GmTRAB1, whose activity rises under drought, stress hormones, and oxidative strain. Plants engineered to make more of it, in both a model weed and soybean roots, tolerated dry, salty stress better, stocking up protective proline and antioxidant enzymes.
Silencing the gene in roots did the opposite, worsening drought sensitivity. The factor also sharpened the plants' response to the drought hormone and helped govern the leaf pores that lose water. The team maps it as a positive regulator worth breeding or engineering for hardier soy.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Hui Li, Qiu-Yu Zhang, Ping Xu, Xiao-Hua Wang, Sheng-Jie Dai, Zhen-Ning Liu, Meng Xu, Xue Cao, Xiao-Yu Cui |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |