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    Role of transcriptional regulation in auxin-mediated response to abiotic stresses
    (Frontiers Media S.A., 2024) Marzi, Davide; Brunetti, Patrizia; Saini, Shashank Sagar; Yadav, Gitanjali; Puglia, Giuseppe Diego; Dello, Ioio Raffaele
    Global climate change (GCC) is posing a serious threat to organisms, particularly plants, which are sessile. Drought, salinity, and the accumulation of heavy metals alter soil composition and have detrimental effects on crops and wild plants. The hormone auxin plays a pivotal role in the response to stress conditions through the fine regulation of plant growth. Hence, rapid, tight, and coordinated regulation of its concentration is achieved by auxin modulation at multiple levels. Beyond the structural enzymes involved in auxin biosynthesis, transport, and signal transduction, transcription factors (TFs) can finely and rapidly drive auxin response in specific tissues. Auxin Response Factors (ARFs) such as the ARF4, 7, 8, 19 and many other TF families, such as WRKY and MADS, have been identified to play a role in modulating various auxin-mediated responses in recent times. Here, we review the most relevant and recent literature on TFs associated with the regulation of the biosynthetic, transport, and signalling auxin pathways and miRNA-related feedback loops in response to major abiotic stresses. Knowledge of the specific role of TFs may be of utmost importance in counteracting the effects of GCC on future agriculture and may pave the way for increased plant resilience.
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    FERONIA, the kinase that phosphorylates PhyB
    (Elsevier B.V., 2023) Sharma, Shambhavi; Prasad, Manoj
    The phosphorylation status of phyB changes dynamically in response to environmental conditions and critically governs the corresponding plant’s responses. However, the kinase(s) that phosphorylates phyB is/are still unknown. Liu et al. have not only identified the kinase that phosphorylates phyB but also revealed its biological implications during salt stress.
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    NSP1 allies with GSK3 to inhibit nodule symbiosis
    (Elsevier B.V., 2021) Singh, Jawahar; Verma, Praveen K.
    Salt stress reduces N2 fixation by causing a reduction in nodule number, nodule weight, and nitrogenase activity in legumes. Emerging evidence from He et al. now suggests that glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3) phosphorylates nodulation signaling pathway 1 (NSP1) in response to salt stress, reducing its DNA-binding activity, and thereby causing a reduction in nodulation.
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    Sub-functionalization in rice gene families with regulatory roles in abiotic stress responses
    (Taylor & Francis Group, 2017) Sharma, G.; Giri, Jitender; Tyagi, Akhilesh K.
    Plants have developed intricate mechanisms to overcome abiotic stresses. The process of signal perception and activation of signaling cascades involves a large number of factors and molecules belonging to diverse classes of gene families. In comparison to animals, plants harbor larger multigene families along with the occurrence of plant-specific ones. Gene families with abiotic-stress-responsive members were analyzed and categorized into classes such as transcription factors, signal transduction components, transporters, epigenetic regulators, and other regulatory components. The number of members, phylogeny, family expansion, domain composition, subcellular localization, and expression profiling during varied abiotic stresses have been summarized. Candidate genes from families, functionally characterized for abiotic stress responses, have been described. Based on our compilation, the expansion of abiotic-stress-responsive gene families in rice has occurred via segmental and tandem duplication events to accommodate sub-functionalization needed for regulating diverse abiotic stress responses at expression, localization, and functional levels. The information documented here can be further utilized as a primer for selecting candidate genes for improvement of rice yield under abiotic stresses.