Expression profiling of TaARGOS homoeologous drought responsive genes in bread wheat.

ABSTRACT: Drought tolerant germplasm is needed to increase crop production, since water scarcity is a critical bottleneck in crop productivity worldwide. Auxin Regulated Gene involved in Organ Size (ARGOS) is a large protein family of transcription factors that plays a vital role in organ size, plant growth, development, and abiotic stress responses in plants. Although, the ARGOS gene family has been discovered and functionalized in a variety of crop plants, but a comprehensive and systematic investigation of ARGOS genes in locally used commercial wheat cultivars is still yet to be reported. The relative expression of three highly conserved TaARGOS homoeologous genes (TaARGOS-A, TaARGOS-B, TaARGOS-D) was studied in three drought-tolerant (Pakistan-2013, NARC-2009 and NR-499) and three sensitive (Bor

SUBMITTER: Ahmed K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8897478 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature