Maho Tanaka

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that genetic modulation of SL content/response could provide a new approach for development of crops with improved stress tolerance and cross-talk between SL and ABA plays an important role in integrating stress signals to regulate stomatal development and function.

TL;DR: This work reports an essential drought-responsive network in which plants trigger a dynamic metabolic flux conversion from glycolysis into acetate synthesis to stimulate the jasmonate signalling pathway to confer drought tolerance in Arabidopsis, rapeseed, maize, rice and wheat plants.

TL;DR: One of the most important roles of NMD is the genome-wide suppression of the aberrant mlncRNAs including nat-RNAs, and it is noticed that, in Arabidopsis, most of the mRNA-like nonprotein-coding RNAs (nc RNAs) have the features of an NMD substrate.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that repression of CK response, and thus CK signaling, is one of the strategies plants use to cope with water deficit, providing novel insight for the design of drought-tolerant plants by genetic engineering.

TL;DR: It is reported that three Arabidopsis AHPs, namely AHP2, AHP3, and AHP5, control responses to drought stress in negative and redundant manner, and down-regulation of many well-known stress- and/or ABA-responsive genes is revealed, suggesting that these three AHPs may control drought response in both aBA-dependent and Aba-independent manners.