Overexpression of an NF-YB gene family member, EaNF-YB2, enhances drought tolerance in sugarcane (Saccharum Spp. Hybrid).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Drought is one of main critical factors that limits sugarcane productivity and juice quality in tropical regions. The unprecedented changes in climate such as monsoon failure, increase in temperature and other factors warrant the need for development of stress tolerant cultivars to sustain sugar production. Plant Nuclear factor (NF-Y) is one of the major classes of transcription factors that have a major role in plant development and abiotic stress response. In our previous studies, we found that under drought conditions, the nuclear factor NF-YB2 was highly expressed in Erianthus arundinaceus, an abiotic stress tolerant wild genus of Saccharum species. In this study, the coding sequence of NF-YB2 gene was isolated from Erianthus arundinaceus and overexpressed in sugarca

SUBMITTER: Chinnaswamy A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11670523 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature