Overexpression of TgERF1, a Transcription Factor from Tectona grandis, Increases Tolerance to Drought and Salt Stress in Tobacco.

ABSTRACT: Teak (Tectona grandis) is one of the most important wood sources, and it is cultivated in tropical regions with a significant market around the world. Abiotic stresses are an increasingly common and worrying environmental phenomenon because it causes production losses in both agriculture and forestry. Plants adapt to these stress conditions by activation or repression of specific genes, and they synthesize numerous stress proteins to maintain their cellular function. For example, APETALA2/ethylene response factor (AP2/ERF) was found to be involved in stress signal transduction. A search in the teak transcriptome database identified an AP2/ERF gene named TgERF1 with a key AP2/ERF domain. We then verified that the TgERF1 expression is rapidly induced by Polyethyle

SUBMITTER: Oliveira PN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9961280 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature