Drought limits the stability of foxtail millet production and the efficient use of germplasm resources, yet whether drought-tolerant and drought-sensitive accessions engage fundamentally distinct pathways or a shared, quantitatively reprogrammed netw...
This study investigates the effects of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and proline, both individually and in combination, on the growth of oilseed rape under drought stress and following the resumption of irrigation. The goal was to determine whethe...
Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is a global cash crop cultivated extensively for its high-quality fiber and oil-rich seeds. Several gene families are involved in the regulatory pathways that enable plants to acclimate to adverse abiotic stresse...
Climate change-induced hazards, such as drought, threaten forest resilience, particularly in vulnerable regions such as the Mediterranean Basin. Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Aiton), a model species in Western Europe, plays a crucial role in the Medi...
The wild wheat Aegilops tauschii Coss. has extensive natural variation available for breeding of common wheat. Drought stress tolerance is closely related to abscisic acid (ABA) sensitivity. In this study, 17 synthetic hexaploid wheat lines, produced...
Drought has increasingly affected the yield of Solanum tuberosum L. (potato) every year over the last decade, posing serious economic problems for the global agricultural industry. Therefore, it is important to research drought tolerance in plants an...
Canola is an important temperate oil crop that can be severely affected by drought. Understanding the physiological and molecular mechanisms involved in canola tolerance to water deficit is essential to obtain drought-tolerant productive cultivars. T...
Wild soybean (Glycine soja L.), drought-tolerant cultivar Tiefeng 31 (Glycine max L.), and drought-sensitive cultivar Fendou 93 (Glycine max L.) were used as materials to investigate the drought tolerance mechanism after 72 h 2.5 M PEG 8000 (osmotic...
Oat, an important cereal and forage crop, is significantly affected by drought stress during production. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying oat’s response to drought stress remain largely unknown. In this study, K-means clustering cla...
The current study aimed to quantify the effects of two drought intensities achieved by deprivation of watering for 45 and 65% of the volumetric soil moisture content (VSMC) for 14 days after wheat anthesis to identify physio-biochemical and molecular...
Drought is one of the most important factors affecting plant growth and production due to ongoing global climate change. Elymus sibiricus has been widely applied for ecological restoration and reseeding of degraded grassland in the Qinghai–Tibe...
Two indica inbred rice lines, IR64, a drought-sensitive, and Apo, a moderately drought-tolerant genotype, were exposed to non- (control or unstressed) and water-stress treatments. Leaf samples collected at an early flowering stage were sequenced by R...
Drought is one of the most significant limiting factors affecting plant growth and development on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP). Mining the drought-tolerant genes of the endemic perennial grass of the QTP, Siberian wildrye (Elymus sibiricus),...
Castor bean (Ricinus communis L.) is an important industrial oil crop worldwide. In China, western Jilin Province represents a major production region for this species, where spring drought severely constrains its yield and quality.This study aimed t...
Drought stress significantly affects the growth, development, and yield of cotton, triggering the response of multiple genes. Among them, ascorbate peroxidase (APX) is one of the important antioxidant enzymes in the metabolism of reactive oxygen spec...
Seedling drought stress is one of the most important constraints affecting soybean yield and quality. To unravel the molecular mechanisms under soybean drought tolerance, we conducted comprehensive comparative transcriptome analyses of drought-tolera...
Drought stress severely affects the growth and development of rice, especially at the reproductive stage, which results in disturbed metabolic processes, reduced seed-set/grain filling, deteriorated grain quality, declined productivity, and lower yie...
Rice is the most important staple crop for the sustenance of the world’s population, and drought is a major factor limiting rice production. Quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis of drought-resistance-related traits was conducted on a recombi...
Drought is a significant abiotic stress that limits crop production. Soybeans [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] are regarded as drought-sensitive. In the present study, the drought responses of wild soybean accessions were evaluated at different growth stages...
Whether DNA methylation modification affects the gene transcription and expression of potatoes under drought stress is still unknown. In this study, we used comparative transcriptomics to explore the expression pattern of related genes of the drought...
Drought stress is one of the most adverse environmental limiting factors for wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) productivity worldwide. For better understanding of the molecular mechanism of wheat in response to drought, a comparative transcriptome approac...
Drought stress is the major environmental constraint in crop production. As climate change increases drought frequency, enhancing drought tolerance has become a major goal in barley breeding. Hordeum vulgare ssp. spontaneum, the wild and closest rela...
Drought stress is a major threat to sustainable crop production worldwide. Despite the positive role of calcium (Ca2+) in improving plant drought tolerance in different crops, little attention has been paid to its role in mitigating drought stress in...
Drought stress is one of the most critical abiotic stresses restricting global crop production, and sorghum plays an important role in arid and semi-arid areas due to its inherent drought tolerance compared to many other cereals. However, significant...
Drought stress requires plants to adjust their water balance to maintain tissue water levels. Isohydric plants (‘water-savers’) typically achieve this through stomatal closure, while anisohydric plants (‘water-wasters’) use osmotic adjustment and mai...
Cotton is an important commercial crop whose growth and yield are severely affected by drought. S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) is widely involved in the plant stress response and growth regulation; however, the role of the S-adenosylmethionine synthase (...
The ZF-HD transcription factors play key roles in plant development and stress responses, yet their functions in cucumber remain poorly understood. Here, we characterized a cucumber ZF-HD gene, CsHB33, and investigated its role in leaf development an...
Drought is a major limiting factor of crop yields. In response to drought, plants reprogram their gene expression, which ultimately regulates a multitude of biochemical and physiological processes. The timing of this reprogramming and the nature of t...
DNA methylation is important for plant growth, development, and stress response. To understand DNA methylation dynamics in maize roots under water stress (WS), we reanalyzed DNA methylation sequencing data to profile DNA methylation and the gene expr...
Miscanthus lutarioriparius is a species of bioenergy crop unique to China. It is widely distributed in the south of China with high resistance to drought and salt stress. To date, the molecular mechanism of the adaption to drought stress in M. lutari...
Background: Drought is one of the major abiotic stresses that affect and limit cotton growth and production. However, transcriptome differences between drought-tolerant and drought-susceptible cotton lines remain largely unknown. Methods and Results:...
Cotton, as a globally important fiber crop, is significantly affected by drought stress during production. This study uses the drought-resistant variety Jin and the drought-sensitive variety TM-1 as test materials. Through multi-period drought stress...
Sorghum is a cereal crop with key agronomic traits of drought and heat stress tolerance, making it an ideal food and industrial commodity for hotter and more arid climates. These stress tolerances also present a useful scientific resource for studyin...
Calcium signaling plays a central role in plant adaptation to abiotic stresses and is primarily mediated by calmodulin and its associated transcription factors. Calmodulin-binding transcription activators (CAMTAs) regulate stress-responsive gene expr...
Drought stress is one of the most serious threats to cucumber quality and yield. To gain a good understanding of the molecular mechanism upon water deficiency, we compared and analyzed the RNA sequencing-based transcriptomic responses of two contrast...
Drought stress is a major obstacle to agricultural production. Tibetan wild barley with rich genetic diversity is useful for drought-tolerant improvement of cereals. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play critical roles in controlling gene expression in response to...
Rice depends on its root system to perceive drought, a major environmental constraint that leads to severe yield losses worldwide. To dissect the underlying molecular basis, we conducted a comparative analysis of drought-sensitive (WAB) and drought-t...
The plant-specific NAC transcription factors play important roles in plant response to drought stress. Here, we have compared the expression levels of a subset of GmNAC genes in drought-tolerant DT51 and drought-sensitive MTD720 under both normal and...
Drought stress severely constrains flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) production, yet the transcriptional logic underlying genotypic variation in root drought tolerance remains unclear. We subjected 20 flax cultivars to drought at peak flowering, construc...
Drought stress severely limits maize (Zea mays L.) productivity worldwide, yet the molecular mechanisms underlying natural variation in drought tolerance remain poorly understood. We conducted a comprehensive comparative analysis using transcriptome...
Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an important crop that provides essential proteins and oils for human and animal consumption. 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase (NCED) have been found can play a vital role in abscisic acid (ABA) biosynthesis and may b...
Foxtail millet is an important crop in Northwest China; however, the mechanism responsible for regulating root adjustment, including water uptake, sugar transport, or metabolism, in foxtail millet remains unclear. Two millet cultivars (the drought-re...
Gibberellic acid-stimulated Arabidopsis sequences (GASAs) are a subset of the gibberellin (GA)-regulated gene family and play crucial roles in various physiological processes. However, the GASA genes in Brassica rapa have not yet been documented. In...
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are transcripts with lengths of more than 200 nt and limited protein-coding potential. They were found to play important roles in plant stress responses. In this study, the maize drought-tolerant inbred line AC7643 and d...
The root system plays a decisive role in the growth and development of plants. The water requirement of a root system depends strongly on the plant species. Potatoes are an important food and vegetable crop grown worldwide, especially under irrigatio...
Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.), a vital economic crop, suffers significant yield losses from drought. This study elucidates the genetic regulation of lignin biosynthesis—a key drought-resistance mechanism—by analyzing three contrasting access...
Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) play crucial roles in crop stress tolerance through protection against oxidative damage. In this study, we conducted genome-wide identification and expression analysis of the GST gene family in the autotetraploid pot...
Peroxiredoxins (Prxs) are thiol-dependent peroxidases that couple hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) detoxification with redox signalling, but the family has not been characterized in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Here, we performed a genome-wide analysis of...
Glutamate receptors (GLRs) are involved in multiple functions during the plant life cycle through affecting the Ca2+ concentration. However, GLRs in Brassica species have not yet been reported. In this study, 16 glutamate receptor-like channels (GLR)...
Soybean is a critical oil and protein crop for both food and forage production; however, its growth and development are severely impacted by drought stress. Nevertheless, the molecular regulatory mechanisms underlying drought tolerance in soybean rem...
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