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  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
91 Citations
8,119 Views
21 Pages

PYR/PYL/RCAR Receptors Play a Vital Role in the Abscisic-Acid-Dependent Responses of Plants to External or Internal Stimuli

  • Justyna Fidler,
  • Jakub Graska,
  • Marta Gietler,
  • Małgorzata Nykiel,
  • Beata Prabucka,
  • Anna Rybarczyk-Płońska,
  • Ewa Muszyńska,
  • Iwona Morkunas and
  • Mateusz Labudda

15 April 2022

Abscisic acid (ABA) is a phytohormone that plays a key role in regulating several developmental processes as well as in response to stressful conditions such as drought. Activation of the ABA signaling cascade allows the induction of an appropriate p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,764 Views
13 Pages

Sulfate-Induced Stomata Closure Requires the Canonical ABA Signal Transduction Machinery

  • Hala Rajab,
  • Muhammad Sayyar Khan,
  • Mario Malagoli,
  • Rüdiger Hell and
  • Markus Wirtz

16 January 2019

Phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) is the canonical trigger for stomatal closure upon abiotic stresses like drought. Soil-drying is known to facilitate root-to-shoot transport of sulfate. Remarkably, sulfate and sulfide—a downstream product of su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,755 Views
21 Pages

Genome-Wide Identification and Characterization of the GmSnRK2 Family in Soybean

  • Wei Zhao,
  • Yi-Hui Cheng,
  • Chi Zhang,
  • Xin-Jie Shen,
  • Qing-Bo You,
  • Wei Guo,
  • Xiang Li,
  • Xue-Jiao Song,
  • Xin-An Zhou and
  • Yong-Qing Jiao

Sucrose non-fermenting-1 (SNF1)-related protein kinase 2s (SnRK2s) that were reported to be involved in the transduction of abscisic acid (ABA) signaling, play important roles in response to biotic and abiotic stresses in plants. Compared to the syst...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,913 Views
12 Pages

13 August 2021

The leaf senescence process is characterized by the degradation of macromolecules in mature leaves and the remobilization of degradation products via phloem transport. The phytohormone ethylene mediates leaf senescence. This study aimed to investigat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,172 Views
17 Pages

Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Analysis of SnRK2 Gene Family in Dormant Vegetative Buds of Liriodendron chinense in Response to Abscisic Acid, Chilling, and Photoperiod

  • Quaid Hussain,
  • Manjia Zheng,
  • Wenwen Chang,
  • Muhammad Furqan Ashraf,
  • Rayyan Khan,
  • Muhammad Asim,
  • Muhammad Waheed Riaz,
  • Mona S. Alwahibi,
  • Mohamed S. Elshikh and
  • Rui Zhang
  • + 1 author

22 July 2022

Protein kinases play an essential role in plants’ responses to environmental stress signals. SnRK2 (sucrose non-fermenting 1-related protein kinase 2) is a plant-specific protein kinase that plays a crucial role in abscisic acid and abiotic str...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,490 Views
17 Pages

23 March 2021

The aim of this study was to characterize hormonal crosstalk with the sugar signaling and metabolic pathway based on a time course analysis of drought intensity. Drought intensity-responsive changes in the assimilation of newly fixed carbon (C) into...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,960 Views
17 Pages

21 December 2022

Sucrose non-fermenting-1-related protein kinase-1 (SnRK1) and its scaffolding proteins, FCS-like zinc finger proteins (FLZs), are well conserved in land plants and involved in various processes of plant growth and stress responses. Glycyrrhiza inflat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,111 Views
20 Pages

Silencing the CsSnRK2.11 Gene Decreases Drought Tolerance of Cucumis sativus L.

  • Peng Wang,
  • Zilong Wan,
  • Shilei Luo,
  • Haotai Wei,
  • Jianuo Zhao,
  • Guoshuai Wang,
  • Jihua Yu and
  • Guobin Zhang

30 October 2023

Drought stress restricts vegetable growth, and abscisic acid plays an important role in its regulation. Sucrose non-fermenting1-related protein kinase 2 (SnRK2) is a key enzyme in regulating ABA signal transduction in plants, and it plays a significa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
196 Views
18 Pages

Transcriptional Regulation and WGCNA Studies of Leaf Abscission in Cotton Cultivars FU75 and 518-48 Under Chemical Defoliant Treatment

  • Rui Yang,
  • Baoguang Xing,
  • Bei Wu,
  • Zhengyang Wang,
  • Wen Zhang,
  • Tao Lu,
  • Fuqiang Zhao,
  • Qingtao Zeng,
  • Yongbo Wang and
  • Pengtao Li

31 December 2025

Leaf abscission is a cell separation process that occurs throughout the entire plant life cycle, leading to the detachment of tissues or organs. The application of chemical defoliants to induce cotton leaf abscission not only saves the energy require...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,261 Views
24 Pages

Evolutionary Analysis of StSnRK2 Family Genes and Their Overexpression in Transgenic Tobacco Improve Drought Tolerance

  • Panfeng Yao,
  • Lei Sun,
  • Simon Dekomah,
  • Zhenzhen Bi,
  • Chao Sun,
  • Juan Mao,
  • Chunli Zhang,
  • Tianyuan Qin,
  • Yihao Wang and
  • Yuhui Liu
  • + 3 authors

Sucrose non-ferment 1-related protein kinase 2 (SnRK2) is a highly conserved protein kinase in plants that plays an important role in regulating plant response to drought stress. Although it has been reported in some plants, the evolutionary relation...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,898 Views
9 Pages

Protein Interactomic Analysis of SAPKs and ABA-Inducible bZIPs Revealed Key Roles of SAPK10 in Rice Flowering

  • Xixi Liu,
  • Zhiyong Li,
  • Yuxuan Hou,
  • Yifeng Wang,
  • Huimei Wang,
  • Xiaohong Tong,
  • Hejun Ao and
  • Jian Zhang

As core components of ABA signaling pathway, SnRK2s (Sucrose nonfermenting1–Related protein Kinase 2) bind to and phosphorylate AREB/ABF (ABA responsive element binding protein/ABRE-binding factor) transcriptional factors, particularly bZIPs (b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
984 Views
18 Pages

Salt Stress Leads to Morphological and Transcriptional Changes in Roots of Pumpkins (Cucurbita spp.)

  • Hongjiu Liu,
  • Ding Ding,
  • Yeshuo Sun,
  • Ruiping Ma,
  • Xiaoqing Yang,
  • Jie Liu and
  • Guoxin Zhang

30 May 2025

Salinity stress poses a major challenge to agricultural productivity worldwide, including for pumpkin, a globally cultivated vegetable crop with great economic value. To deal with salt stress, plants exhibit an array of responses such as changes in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,718 Views
30 Pages

Endogenous Hormone Levels and Transcriptomic Analysis Reveal the Mechanisms of Bulbil Initiation in Pinellia ternata

  • Lan Mou,
  • Lang Zhang,
  • Yujie Qiu,
  • Mingchen Liu,
  • Lijuan Wu,
  • Xu Mo,
  • Ji Chen,
  • Fan Liu,
  • Rui Li and
  • Chen Liu
  • + 1 author

Pinellia ternata is a medicinal plant that has important pharmacological value, and the bulbils serve as the primary reproductive organ; however, the mechanisms underlying bulbil initiation remain unclear. Here, we characterized bulbil development vi...