Transcriptional Regulation of Drought Response in Arabidopsis and Woody Plants

Tao Yao; Jin Zhang; Meng Xie; Guoliang Yuan; Timothy J. Tschaplinski; Wellington Muchero; Jin Gui Chen

doi:10.3389/fpls.2020.572137

Transcriptional Regulation of Drought Response in Arabidopsis and Woody Plants

Tao Yao, Jin Zhang, Meng Xie, Guoliang Yuan, Timothy J. Tschaplinski, Wellington Muchero, Jin Gui Chen

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Abstract

Within the context of global warming, long-living plants such as perennial woody species endure adverse conditions. Among all of the abiotic stresses, drought stress is one of the most detrimental stresses that inhibit plant growth and productivity. Plants have evolved multiple mechanisms to respond to drought stress, among which transcriptional regulation is one of the key mechanisms. In this review, we summarize recent progress on the regulation of drought response by transcription factor (TF) families, which include abscisic acid (ABA)-dependent ABA-responsive element/ABRE-binding factors (ABRE/ABF), WRKY, and Nuclear Factor Y families, as well as ABA-independent AP2/ERF and NAC families, in the model plant Arabidopsis. We also review what is known in woody species, particularly Populus, due to its importance and relevance in economic and ecological processes. We discuss opportunities for a deeper understanding of drought response in woody plants with the development of high-throughput omics analyses and advanced genome editing techniques.

Original language	English
Article number	572137
Journal	Frontiers in Plant Science
Volume	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.572137
State	Published - Jan 8 2021

Funding

This work was supported by the Center for Bioenergy Innovation, the Plant-Microbe Interfaces Scientific Focus Area and the Genomics-Enabled Plant Biology for Determination of Gene Function program by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research in the United States Department of Energy Office of Science. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the United States Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725. JZ is funded by the Zhejiang A&F University Research and Development Fund Talent Startup Project. Funding. This work was supported by the Center for Bioenergy Innovation, the Plant-Microbe Interfaces Scientific Focus Area and the Genomics-Enabled Plant Biology for Determination of Gene Function program by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research in the United States Department of Energy Office of Science. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the United States Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725. JZ is funded by the Zhejiang A&F University Research and Development Fund Talent Startup Project.

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Arabidopsis
Populus
abscisic acid
drought response
transcription factor
transcriptional regulation

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