Yaorong Wu

TL;DR: A novel rice DREB transcription factor, OsDREB1F, was cloned and characterised via subtractive suppression hybridisation (SSH) from upland rice and revealed that it was induced by salt, drought, cold stresses, and also ABA application, but not by pathogen, wound, and H2O2.

TL;DR: CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing is a recently developed powerful technology derived from the bacterial clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats system, whereby CRISPR loci were transcribed into non-coding RNAs, which can form a complex with Cas proteins to mediate the cleavage of complementary invading DNA.

TL;DR: In vivo experiments indicate that ATAF1 is a bona fide regulator modulating plant responses to many abiotic stresses and necrotrophic-pathogen infection, and transgenic plants overexpressing ATAF 1 were hypersensitive to oxidative stress, suggesting that reactive oxygen intermediates may be related to ATAF2-mediated signaling in response to both pathogen and abiotic stress.

TL;DR: It is reported that ABI4 positively regulates primary seed dormancy, while negatively regulating cotyledon greening, by mediating the biogenesis of ABA and GA.

TL;DR: This genome provides resources and evidence about the nature of defense mechanisms constituting the genetic basis underlying plant abiotic stress tolerance and identified genes related to cation transport, abscisic acid signaling, and wax production prominent in T. salsuginea as possible contributors to its success in stressful environments.