Molecular Characterization of a Date Palm Vascular Highway 1-Interacting Kinase (PdVIK) Under Abiotic Stresses.

ABSTRACT: The date palm (Khalas) is an extremophile plant that can adapt to various abiotic stresses including drought and salinity. Salinity tolerance is a complex trait controlled by numerous genes. Identification and functional characterization of salt-responsive genes from the date palm is fundamental to understand salinity tolerance at the molecular level in this plant species. In this study, a salt-inducible vascular highway 1-interacting kinase (PdVIK) that is a MAP kinase kinase kinase (MAPKKK) gene from the date palm, was functionally characterized using in vitro and in vivo strategies. PdVIK, one of the 597 kinases encoded by the date palm genome possesses an ankyrin repeat domain and a kinase domain. The recombinant PdVIK protein exhibited phosphotyrosine activity aga

SUBMITTER: Al-Harrasi I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7288329 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature