BULK SEGREGANT TRANSCRIPTOME ANALYSIS BASED DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION OF DROUGHT RESPONSE GENES IN MAIZE
BULK SEGREGANT TRANSCRIPTOME ANALYSIS BASED DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION OF DROUGHT RESPONSE GENES IN MAIZE
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2020
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K. Zhou;Xi Zeng;Binglin Zhang;M. Aslam;H. Xin;Wei-Jie Liu;H. Zou
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K. Zhou;Xi Zeng;Binglin Zhang;M. Aslam;H. Xin;Wei-Jie Liu;H. Zou
Plants must overcome various environmental challenges to survive during growth and development. Abiotic stresses like drought, cold, heat and salinity are the major factors having adverse effects on crop production and threat to food security (Zhu, 2016). As a important cereal crop in the world, maize plays crucial role in consolidating world food security (Strable and Scanlon, 2009). However, drought stress is the main limiting factor for production of maize (Gong et al., 2014). During developmental phases, the seedling stage is much more sensitive to dehydration. Severe drought stress causes stunted growth leading to death of maize seedling (Peleg and Blumwald, 2011). Understanding of strategies involved in drought stress responses in maize seedlings, especially the cultivars with excellent drought tolerance, will provide considerable clues to improve the drought tolerance of maize. Phytohormones including abscisic acid (ABA), cytokinin (CK), auxin (IAA), brassinosteriods (BR), salicylic acid (SA) and ethylene (ET) were found involved in drought stress response in plants. Among them, ABA plays central roles in drought stress responses by regulating water loss and adjusting the gene expression (Golldack et al., 2011). The synthesis of ABA rely on catalytic enzymes such as NCED and ABA3/LOS5 (Nambara and Marion-Poll, 2005; Peleg and Blumwald, 2011). In tomato, ABA accumulation and the ability of drought tolerance were significantly increased by overexpressing of LeNCED1 in transgenic plants (Thompson et al., 2007). Similarly, the overexpression of SgNCED1 could enhance the accumulation of ABA in leaves and improve the tolerance to drought stress in tobacco (Zhang et al., 2008). ABA3/LOS5has been modulated for reducing drought damage by overexpressing in transgenic rice (Xiong et al., 2001). During drought stress, induction of transcription factors (TFs) such as AP2/EREBP (APETALA2/ethylene-responsive element binding proteins), bZIP (basic region/leucine zipper motif), NAC (NAM, ATAF and CUC) and MYB (v-myb avian myeloblastosis viral oncogene homolog) regulates the expression of down stream genes and enhances tolerance to abiotic stresses in plants. For example, the expression levels of transcription factors MYBJ7, BZIP50, C2H2and NAC2increasedafter imposition of drought stress in soybean roots (Pereira et al., 2011). Overexpression of the gene SNAC2 enhanced the ability of drought tolerance in rice (Hu et al., 2008).Tolerance to drought was enhanced by overexpressing the maize transcription factor ZmMYB3R in transgenic Arabidopsis (Wu et al., 2019).Transcription factors are an important molecular mechanism for plants to Pak. J. Agri. Sci., Vol. 57(4), 909-923; 2020 ISSN (Print) 0552-9034, ISSN (Online) 2076-0906 DOI: 10.21162/PAKJAS/20.9899 http://www.pakjas.com.pk