HD-Zip proteins are unique to plants, and contain a homeodomain closely linked to a leucine zipper motif, which are involved in dimerization and DNA binding. Based on homology in the HD-Zip domain, gene structure and the presence of additional motifs...
The homeodomain-leucine zipper (HD-ZIP) family transcription factors play important roles in plant growth and development. However, the underlying mechanisms remain largely unclear. Here we found that ATHB2, encoding a HD-ZIP transcription factor, is...
Class III homeodomain-leucine zipper (HD-ZIP III) genes encode plant-specific transcription factors that play pivotal roles in plant growth and development. There is no systematic report on HD-ZIP III members in Brassica plants and their responses to...
Homeodomain-leucine zipper (HD-ZIP) transcription factors are one of the plant-specific gene families involved in plant growth and response to adverse environmental conditions. However, little information is available on the HD-ZIP gene family in wat...
The homeodomain-leucine zipper (HD-Zip) transcription factor family is a key transcription factor family and unique to the plant kingdom. It consists of a homeodomain and a leucine zipper that serve in combination as a dimerization motif. The family...
Exploring the molecular foundation of the gene-regulatory systems underlying agronomic parameters or/and plant responses to both abiotic and biotic stresses is crucial for crop improvement. Thus, transcription factors, which alone or in combination d...
Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying somatic embryogenesis is essential for resolving the problems related to the long duration of the process and a low rate of somatic embryo induction in oil palm tissue culture. In this study, we condu...
The homeodomain-leucine zipper (HD-Zip) proteins are important transcription factors in the regulation of plant growth and development and abiotic stress responses. However, our understanding of the HD-Zip family is still limited in quinoa. In this s...
The homeodomain-leucine zipper (HD-Zip) gene family, as plant-specific transcription factors, plays an important role in plant development and growth as well as in the response to diverse stresses. Although HD-Zip genes have been extensively studied...
The homeodomain-leucine zipper (HD-ZIP) is a plant-specific transcription factor family that plays important roles in plant developmental processes in response to multiple stressors. We previously isolated a cotton HD-ZIP class I transcription factor...
Drought is one of the major environmental constraints limiting tomato growth and productivity. Identifying regulators that enhance drought tolerance without compromising plant growth is therefore important for tomato production. Homeodomain-leucine z...
Homeodomain-leucine zipper (HD-Zip) family genes are considered to play an important role in plant growth and stress tolerance. However, a genome-wide analysis of HD-Zip genes in apples (Malus domestica Borkh.) has not been performed. We detected 48...
Homeodomain-leucine zipper (HD-Zip) genes encode plant-specific transcription factors, which play important roles in plant growth, development, and response to environmental stress. These genes have not been fully studied in allopolyploid Brassica na...
Members of homeodomain-leucine zipper (HD-Zip) transcription factors can play their roles by modulating abscisic acid (ABA) signaling in Arabidopsis. So far, our knowledge of the functions of HD-Zips in woodland strawberries (Fragaria vesca), a model...
The Homeodomain leucine zipper (HD-Zip) family of transcription factors is crucial in helping plants adapt to environmental changes and promoting their growth and development. Despite research on the HD-Zip family in various plants, studies in Lagers...
Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) is a vital dual-use crop, with some varieties being used as leafy vegetables that are rich in anthocyanins. Nevertheless, salinity stress is a challenge to their production. Homeodomain-leucine zipper (HD-ZIP) gene f...
This study investigates the role of sea buckthorn HD-Zip genes in response to lead stress, identifying 28 genes distributed across 10 chromosomes, which are classified into four subfamilies. Each subfamily exhibits a similar gene structure and conser...
Chrysanthemum is a genus in the Asteraceae family containing numerous cut flower varieties with high ornamental value. It owes its beauty to the composite flower head, which resembles a compact inflorescence. This structure is also known as a capitul...
Miscanthus sinensis is an ornamental grass, non-food bioenergy crop, and forage with high feeding value. It can adapt to many kinds of soil conditions due to its high level of resistance to various abiotic stresses. However, a low level of seed germi...
The homeodomain-leucine zipper (HD-Zip) gene family, whose members play vital roles in plant growth and development, and participate in responding to various stresses, is an important class of transcription factors currently only found in plants. Alt...
Diosgenin, a crucial precursor for steroidal drug production, has poorly understood regulatory pathways. Diosgenin is the primary active component of Dioscorea zingiberensis. Notably, D. zingiberensis also possesses the highest diosgenin content amon...
HD-ZIP proteins (homeodomain–leucine zipper proteins) are a large family of plant-specific transcription factors that play crucial roles in regulating various physiological and developmental processes, including growth, differentiation, respons...
In this study, we identified 34 HD-ZIP genes at the genome-wide level in P. trifoliata (Poncirus trifoliata (L.) Raf.), and conducted comprehensive bioinformatic analyses. The expression profiles of PtrHB genes in response to six phytohormones (ABA,...
Homeodomain-Leucine Zipper (HD-Zip) constitutes a distinct class of plant-specific transcription factors (TFs) that serves an essential function in mediating plant responses to environmental cues, with the HD-Zip II subfamily recognized as a major re...
HD-Zip (homeodomain-leucine zipper) transcription factors play a crucial role in plant growth, development, and stress response; however, the HD-Zip gene family of Coix lacryma-jobi L. has not been identified. In this study, a total of 40 HD-Zip gene...
Leaf veins constitute the transport network for water and photosynthetic assimilates in vascular plants. The class III homeodomain-leucine zipper (HD-Zip III) gene family is central to the regulation of vascular development. In this research, we perf...
The homeodomain-leucine zipper (HD-Zip) transcription factor family is conserved in land plants and is critical for regulating growth, development, and stress responses. Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) is an economically valuable dual-purpose crop valu...
HD-Zip, a special class of transcription factors in high plants, has a role in plant development and responding to external environmental stress. Heat stress has always been an important factor affecting plant growth, quality, and yield. Carotenoid c...
The homeodomain–leucine zipper (HD-zip) gene family plays a crucial role in plant development and stress responses. However, systematic identification studies of this gene family in eggplant are still lacking. In this study, we systematically i...
Fabaceans produce two major classes of symbiotic nodules: the indeterminate type characterized by a persistent meristem, and the determinate type that lacks a persistent meristem. The class III homeodomain leucine zipper (HD-ZIP III) transcription fa...
Background/Objectives: The terrestrialization of plants has been a significant driver of plant evolution over hundreds of millions of years, and epidermal development plays a crucial role in adapting to terrestrial environments. It is therefore of gr...
Flowers are key reproductive structures for many plant species. They are essential for seed and fruit production, and their development is tightly regulated by hormonal and genetic networks. The homeodomain transcription factors HAT3 and ATHB4 are kn...
Homeobox genes comprise an important group of genes that are responsible for regulation of developmental processes. These genes determine cell differentiation and cell fate in all eukaryotic organisms, starting from the early stages of embryo develop...
The homeodomain-leucine zipper (HD-ZIP) transcription factors, representing one of the largest plant-specific superfamilies, play important roles in the response to various abiotic stresses. However, the functional roles of HD-ZIPs in abiotic stress...
The generation of complex plant architectures depends on the interactions among different molecular regulatory networks that control the growth of cells within tissues, ultimately shaping the final morphological features of each structure. The regula...
The homeodomain–leucine zipper IV (HD-Zip IV) transcription factor subfamily plays essential roles in epidermal development, cuticle formation, lipid metabolism, and environmental adaptation in plants. Despite its biological importance, the HD-...
In the signal transduction network, from the perception of stress signals to stress-responsive gene expression, various transcription factors and cis-regulatory elements in stress-responsive promoters coordinate plant adaptation to abiotic stresses....
For floral induction in adult citrus, low temperature is one of the most important environmental factors. FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) plays a very important role in low-temperature-induced Arabidopsis flowering by repressed FLC expression under exposure...
In Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis), nonhost resistance (NHR) is influenced by both leaf age and the moment of inoculation. While the circadian clock and photoperiod have been linked to the time-dependent regulation of NHR in Arabidopsis, the mecha...
The HB (homeobox) transcription factor family plays important roles in plant growth, development, morphogenesis, and stress responses; however, its involvement in longan (Dimocarpus longan Lour.) fruit energy metabolism remains unclear. In this study...
HD-Zip III transcription factors are known to play roles in regulating shoot apical meristem (SAM) and axillary meristem (AM) development, exerting direct effects on plant architecture and branching. However, the HD-Zip III (BjuHDZ) gene family has n...
Plants may encounter abiotic stresses, such as drought, flooding, salinity, and extreme temperatures, thereby negatively affecting their growth, development, and reproduction. In order to enhance their tolerance to such stresses, plants have develope...
The plant-specific homeodomain zipper family (HD-ZIP) of transcription factors plays central roles in regulating plant development and environmental resistance. HD-ZIP transcription factors IV (HDZ IV) have been involved primarily in the regulation o...
Aluminum (Al) stress is a major limiting factor for plant growth and crop production in acid soils. At present, only a few transcription factors involved in the regulation of Al resistance have been characterized. Here, we used reversed genetic appro...
ATHB1, an Arabidopsis thaliana homeodomain-leucine zipper (HD-Zip) transcription factor, is involved in the control of leaf development and hypocotyl elongation under short-day conditions. As growth adaptation to environmental conditions is essential...
The HD-ZIP III transcription factor REVOLUTA (REV) is involved in early leaf development, as well as in leaf senescence. REV directly binds to the promoters of senescence-associated genes, including the central regulator WRKY53. As this direct regula...
MicroRNA (miRNA), a type of non-coding RNA, is crucial for controlling gene expression. Among the various miRNA families, miR166 stands out as a highly conserved group found in both model and crop plants. It plays a key role in regulating a wide rang...
Xylem, as a unique organizational structure of vascular plants, bears water transport and supports functions necessary for plant survival. Notably, secondary xylem in the stem (i.e., wood) also has important economic and ecological value. In view of...
MicroRNA166 (miR166) is a highly conserved plant miRNA that plays a crucial role in plant growth and the resistance to various abiotic stresses. However, the miR166s in tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze) have not been comprehensively identified a...
The study of somatic embryogenesis can provide insight into early plant development. We previously obtained LaMIR166a-overexpressing embryonic cell lines of Larix kaempferi (Lamb.) Carr. To further elucidate the molecular mechanisms associated with m...
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