Shengxiong Huang, Yongfeng Gao, Ji‐Kai Liu, Xiaoli Peng et al.
The WRKY transcription factors have been implicated in multiple biological processes in plants, especially in regulating defense against biotic and abiotic stresses. However, little information is available about the WRKYs in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). The recent release of the whole-genome sequ...
Alessandro Pellegrineschi, Matthew Reynolds, Mario Pacheco, R. M. Brito et al.
One of the major environmental factors limiting plant productivity is lack of water. This is especially true for the major cereals maize, rice, and wheat, which demonstrate a range of susceptibility to moisture deficit. Although conventional breeding and marker-assisted selection are being used to d...
Ayman El Sabagh, Mohammad Sohidul Islam, Akbar Hossain, Muhammad Aamir Iqbal et al.
Phytohormones (PHs) play crucial role in regulation of various physiological and biochemical processes that govern plant growth and yield under optimal and stress conditions. The interaction of these PHs is crucial for plant survival under stressful environments as they trigger signaling pathways. H...
Muhammad Ahsan Altaf, Rabia Shahid, Ming‐Xun Ren, Safina Naz et al.
Tomato is an important vegetable that is highly sensitive to drought (DR) stress which impairs the development of tomato seedlings. Recently, melatonin (ME) has emerged as a nontoxic, regulatory biomolecule that regulates plant growth and enhances the DR tolerance mechanism in plants. The present st...
Md. Abdul Alim Al‐Bari, Pingyong Xu
Macroautophagy is a lysosomal degradative pathway or recycling process that maintains cellular homeostasis. This autophagy involves a series of sequential processing events, such as initiation; elongation and nucleation of the isolation membrane; cargo recruitment and maturation of the autophagosome...
Md. Mezanur Rahman, Mohammad Golam Mostofa, Sanjida Sultana Keya, Md. Nurealam Siddiqui et al.
Soil salinization, which is aggravated by climate change and inappropriate anthropogenic activities, has emerged as a serious environmental problem, threatening sustainable agriculture and future food security. Although there has been considerable progress in developing crop varieties by introducing...
Georgia Drakakaki, Wilhelmina van de Ven, Songqin Pan, Yansong Miao et al.
The endomembrane system is a complex and dynamic intracellular trafficking network. It is very challenging to track individual vesicles and their cargos in real time; however, affinity purification allows vesicles to be isolated in their natural state so that their constituent proteins can be identi...
Biswojit Debnath, Waqar Islam, Min Li, Yueting Sun et al.
Melatonin is a multifunctional signaling molecule, ubiquitously distributed in different parts of plants and responsible for stimulating several physiological responses to adverse environmental conditions. In the current review, we showed that the biosynthesis of melatonin occurred in plants by them...
Mohammad Golam Mostofa, Weiqiang Li, Kien Huu Nguyen, Masayuki Fujita et al.
Phytohormones play central roles in boosting plant tolerance to environmental stresses, which negatively affect plant productivity and threaten future food security. Strigolactones (SLs), a class of carotenoid-derived phytohormones, were initially discovered as an "ecological signal" for parasitic s...
Mohammad Shah Jahan, Sheng Shu, Yu Wang, Md. Mahadi Hasan et al.
Heat stress and abscisic acid (ABA) induce leaf senescence, whereas melatonin (MT) and gibberellins (GA) play critical roles in inhibiting leaf senescence. Recent research findings confirm that plant tolerance to diverse stresses is closely associated with foliage lifespan. However, the molecular me...
Lijun Wang, Lingyu Ran, Yisu Hou, Qiaoyan Tian et al.
Proanthocyanidins (PAs) are major defense phenolic compounds in the leaves of poplar (Populus spp.) in response to abiotic and biotic stresses. Transcriptional regulation of PA biosynthetic genes by the MYB-basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH)-WD40 complexes in poplar is not still fully understood. Here, a...
Mohamed Moustafa‐Farag, Ahmed Mahmoud, Marino B. Arnao, Mohamed S. Sheteiwy et al.
Water stress (drought and waterlogging) is severe abiotic stress to plant growth and development. Melatonin, a bioactive plant hormone, has been widely tested in drought situations in diverse plant species, while few studies on the role of melatonin in waterlogging stress conditions have been publis...
Ulkar İbrahimova, Pragati Kumari, Saurabh Yadav, Anshu Rastogi et al.
Salinization is a worldwide environmental problem, which is negatively impacting crop yield and thus posing a threat to the world's food security. Considering the rising threat of salinity, it is need of time, to understand the salt tolerant mechanism in plants and find avenues for the development o...
Yinbo Gan, Sophie Filleur, Azizur Rahman, Susan Gotensparre et al.
The ANR1 MADS-box gene in Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. has previously been identified as a key regulator of lateral root growth in response to signals from external nitrate (NO3(-)). We have used quantitative real-time PCR to investigate the responsiveness of ANR1 and 11 other root-expressed MAD...
Ayman El Sabagh, Sonia Mbarki, Akbar Hossain, Muhammad Aamir Iqbal et al.
Plant growth regulators are naturally biosynthesized chemicals in plants that influence physiological processes. Their synthetic analogous trigger numerous biochemical and physiological processes involved in the growth and development of plants. Nowadays, due to changing climatic scenario, numerous ...