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Transgenic tobacco plants overexpressing a wheat salt stress root protein (TaSSRP) exhibit enhanced tolerance to heat stress
Heat stress is a detrimental abiotic stress that limits the development of many plant species and is linked to a variety of cellular and physiological problems. Heat stress affects membrane fluidity, which lea...
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Open AccessTranscriptome profiling reveals the genes and pathways involved in thermo-tolerance in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotype Raj 3765
Wheat, one of the most widely consumed staple food crops globally, is relatively vulnerable to high temperature-induced heat stress. It is therefore essential to gain more insight into the comprehensive mechan...
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Reactive oxygen species in plants: an invincible fulcrum for biotic stress mitigation
Climate change-associated environmental vagaries have amplified the incidence of pests and pathogens on plants, thus imparting the increased quest for management strategies. Plants respond to stresses through ...
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Alteration of proteome in germinating seedlings of piegonpea (Cajanus cajan) after salt stress
Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan) is an important crop in semi-arid regions and a significant source of dietary proteins in India. The plant is sensitive to salinity stress, which adversely affects its productivity. Base...
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Multi-omics strategies and prospects to enhance seed quality and nutritional traits in pigeonpea
Food and nutritional security are an essential goals for the entire global population during climate change scenarios. These twin challenges can be addressed by expanding the global crop** system by promotin...
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Role of abiotic stress responsive miRNAs in Arabidopsis root development
Abiotic stresses like drought, extreme temperature, and lack of sufficient water or nutrients adversely affect plant growth and productivity. The physiological responses of higher plants to the environmental s...
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Open AccessAllelic sequence variation in the Sub1A, Sub1B and Sub1C genes among diverse rice cultivars and its association with submergence tolerance
Erratic rainfall leading to flash flooding causes huge yield losses in lowland rice. The traditional varieties and landraces of rice possess variable levels of tolerance to submergence stress, but gene discove...
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Open AccessA 62K genic-SNP chip array for genetic studies and breeding applications in pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L. Millsp.)
Pigeonpea is the second most important pulse legume crop for food and nutritional security of South Asia that requires accelerated breeding using high throughput genomic tools. Single nucleotide polymorphisms ...
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Functional characterization of aminotransferase involved in serine and aspartate metabolism in a halotolerant cyanobacterium, Aphanothece halophytica
Aminotransferases catalyze the reversible pyridoxal phosphate–dependent transfer of amino groups from amino acids to oxo acids and play important roles for the balance between carbon and nitrogen metabolism. I...
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Proline, Glycinebetaine, and Trehalose Uptake and Inter-Organ Transport in Plants Under Stress
Proline, glycinebetaine, and trehalose function as compatible solutes and are upregulated in plants under abiotic stress. The uptake and inter-organ transport in plants are largely unknown. We review the curre...
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Isolation and functional characterization of 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase involved in salt responses in sugar beet
The present study investigated the significance of serine biosynthetic genes for salt stress in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris). We isolated a total of four genes, two each encoding D-3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase ...
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Haplotype distribution and association of candidate genes with salt tolerance in Indian wild rice germplasm
The association of natural genetic variations of salt-responsive candidate genes belonging to different gene families with salt-tolerance phenotype and their haplotype variation in different ge...
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Elucidation of salt-tolerance metabolic pathways in contrasting rice genotypes and their segregating progenies
Differentially expressed antioxidant enzymes, amino acids and proteins in contrasting rice genotypes, and co-location of their genes in the QTLs mapped using bi-parental population, indicated t...
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Open AccessAssociation of SNP Haplotypes of HKT Family Genes with Salt Tolerance in Indian Wild Rice Germplasm
Rice is one of the most important crops for global food security but its productivity is adversely affected by salt stress prevalent in about 30 % of the cultivated land. For develo** salt-tolerant rice vari...
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Open AccessSingle-copy gene based 50 K SNP chip for genetic studies and molecular breeding in rice
Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) is the most abundant DNA sequence variation present in plant genomes. Here, we report the design and validation of a unique genic-SNP genoty** chip for genetic and evolut...
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Effect of salt stress on seedling growth and antioxidant enzymes in two contrasting rice introgression lines
Salinity induced physiological changes were investigated in two BC2F6–7 high yielding rice introgression lines (ILs) derived from advanced backcross populations of O. sativa (IR58025A/KMR3) × O. rufipogon. Plants...
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Low cellular P-quota and poor metabolic adaptations of the freshwater cyanobacterium Anabaena fertilissima Rao during Pi-limitation
Anabaena fertilissima is a filamentous freshwater N2-fixing cyanobacterium, isolated from a paddy field. Growth of the cyanobacterium was limited by the non-availability of inorganic phosphate (P...
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Differentially expressed genes in sensitive and tolerant rice varieties in response to salt-stress
Soil salinity is a major constraint to rice production worldwide; hence intensive efforts are on to identify genes that make rice varieties tolerant to the salt stress. In this study, four rice varieties diffe...
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Combining QTL map** and transcriptome profiling of bulked RILs for identification of functional polymorphism for salt tolerance genes in rice (Oryza sativa L.)
Identification of genes for quantitative traits is difficult using any single approach due to complex inheritance of the traits and limited resolving power of the individual techniques. Here a combination of g...
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Metabolic engineering of glycinebetaine
