Identification and in silico characterization of soybean trihelix-GT and bHLH transcription factors involved in stress responses.

ABSTRACT: Environmental stresses caused by either abiotic or biotic factors greatly affect agriculture. As for soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merril], one of the most important crop species in the world, the situation is not different. In order to deal with these stresses, plants have evolved a variety of sophisticated molecular mechanisms, to which the transcriptional regulation of target-genes by transcription factors is crucial. Even though the involvement of several transcription factor families has been widely reported in stress response, there still is a lot to be uncovered, especially in soybean. Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate the role of bHLH and trihelix-GT transcription factors in soybean responses to environmental stresses. Gene annotation, data mining for stress res

SUBMITTER: Osorio MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3392876 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature