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The Asagi Igneous Complex is located about 160 km northwest of Zahedan in the Sistan Suture Zone, southeast Iran. It is composed of Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene extrusive and intrusive igneous rocks. The h...
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Mineral chemistry and Petrology of the Andarian volcanic rocks: insight to the Ahar-Arasbaran magmatic zone, Northwestern Iran
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Genetic engineering approaches to understanding drought tolerance in plants
Abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, frost, etc., affect plant yield manyfold. These stresses can decrease the plant yield of important major crops up to 50%. The abiotic stress-related genes or other t...
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Application of Biotechnology to Generate Drought-Tolerant Soybean Plants in Brazil: Development of Genetic Engineering Technology of Crops with Stress Tolerance Against Degradation of Global Environment
Brazil is the second largest soybean-producing country, but yields have recently been unstable because of droughts. The objective of this project was to develop drought-tolerant soybean lines based on informat...
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Molecular, physiological, and agronomical characterization, in greenhouse and in field conditions, of soybean plants genetically modified with AtGolS2 gene for drought tolerance
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Mineralogy and geochemistry of granitoids from Kinnaur region, Himachal Higher Himalaya, India: Implication on the nature of felsic magmatism in the collision tectonics
Felsic magmatism in the southern part of Himachal Higher Himalaya is constituted by Neoproterozoic granite gneiss (GGn), Early Palaeozoic granitoids (EPG) and Tertiary tourmaline-bearing leucogranite (TLg). Ma...
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The relationship between bismuth (Bi) mineral speciation and redox state in three types of granitoids from the Uetsu region, northeast Japan is investigated. Electron microprobe analysis of Bi minerals, sphale...
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Characterization of Molecular and Physiological Responses Under Water Deficit of Genetically Modified Soybean Plants Overexpressing the AtAREB1 Transcription Factor
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Open AccessTiming of clockwise rotation of Southwest Japan: constraints from new middle Miocene paleomagnetic results
Southwest Japan rotated clockwise during the late stage of the opening of the Japan Sea, although the exact timing of the rotation is controversial. A recent biostratigraphic study has revealed that the Miocen...
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Comparative functional analysis of six drought-responsive promoters in transgenic rice
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We review the recent progress on ABA signaling, especially ABA signaling for ABA-dependent gene expression, including the AREB/ABF regulon, SnRK2 protein kinase, 2C-type protein phosphatases an...
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Overexpression of the ABA-Dependent AREB1 Transcription Factor from Arabidopsis thaliana Improves Soybean Tolerance to Water Deficit
Among current strategies for the development of drought-tolerant plants, engineering transcription factors that regulate the expression of genes related to abiotic stress is promising. Soybean plants overexpre...
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Open AccessToward understanding transcriptional regulatory networks in abiotic stress responses and tolerance in rice
Abiotic stress causes loss of crop production. Under abiotic stress conditions, expression of many genes is induced, and their products have important roles in stress responses and tolerance. Progress has been...
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Arabidopsis HsfA1 transcription factors function as the main positive regulators in heat shock-responsive gene expression
Arabidopsis DREB2A is a key transcription factor of heat- and drought-responsive gene expression, and DREB2A expression is induced by these stresses. We analyzed the DREB2A promoter and f...
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The abiotic stress-responsive NAC-type transcription factor OsNAC5 regulates stress-inducible genes and stress tolerance in rice
The transcription factor OsNAC5 in rice is a member of the plant-specific NAC family that regulates stress responses. Expression of OsNAC5 is induced by abiotic stresses such as drought, cold, high salinity, absc...
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Promoters and Transcription Factors in Abiotic Stress-Responsive Gene Expression
Plant growth and productivity are greatly affected by abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, high temperature, and low temperature. The expression of a variety of genes that are induced by these stresses ...
