Expression patterns of GmAP2/EREB-like transcription factors involved in soybean responses to water deficit.

ABSTRACT: Soybean farming has faced several losses in productivity due to drought events in the last few decades. However, plants have molecular mechanisms to prevent and protect against water deficit injuries, and transcription factors play an important role in triggering different defense mechanisms. Understanding the expression patterns of transcription factors in response to water deficit and to environmental diurnal changes is very important for unveiling water deficit stress tolerance mechanisms. Here, we analyzed the expression patterns of ten APETALA2/Ethylene Responsive Element Binding-like (AP2/EREB-like) transcription factors in two soybean genotypes (BR16: drought-sensitive; and Embrapa 48: drought-tolerant). According to phylogenetic and domain analyses, these genes can be included in t

SUBMITTER: Marcolino-Gomes J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3646874 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature