Guangmin Xia

TL;DR: The results show the WRKY orthologues of wheat and rice are more similar compared to their Arabidopsis counterparts, and it is argued some expansion of theWRKY family occurred following the divergence of these three species.

TL;DR: TaCHP, a CHP-rich zinc finger protein family gene extracted from bread wheat, is differentially expressed during abiotic stress between the salinity-sensitive cultivar Jinan 177 and its tolerant somatic hybrid introgression cultivar Shanrong No.3.

TL;DR: It is suggested that WRSI5 plays an important role in regulating the plant growth rate or long-distance Na(+) transport in SR3 plants exposed to salt stress.

TL;DR: It is reported that overexpression of the AtNHX1 gene confers enhanced salt tolerance to the transformed tall fescue progenies, and this accumulation of sodium in vacuoles of root cells, mediated by vacuolar Na(+)/H(+) antiporter activity in tonoplast vesicles, reduced the toxic effects of salinity to tall feshue and thus enhanced its salt tolerance.

TL;DR: This work shows that a mutation of the ARGONAUTE7 ortholog (LOBED LEAFLET1) in Medicago truncatula causes lobed leaf margins and more widely spaced lateral organs, suggesting that the trans-acting siRNA3 (TAS3) pathway negatively regulates the formation of boundaries and the separation of lateral organs in M. trunCatula.