MfbHLH38, a Myrothamnus flabellifolia bHLH transcription factor, confers tolerance to drought and salinity stresses in Arabidopsis.

Jia-Rui QiuZhuo HuangXiang-Ying XiangWen-Xin XuJia-Tong WangJia ChenLi SongYao XiaoXi LiJun MaShi-Zhen CaiLing-Xia SunCai-Zhong Jiang

Published in: BMC plant biology (2020)

Our results presented evidence that MfbHLH38 enhanced tolerance to drought and salinity stresses in Arabidopsis through increasing water retention ability, regulating osmotic balance, decreasing stress-induced oxidation damage, and possibly participated in ABA-dependent stress-responding pathway.

Keyphrases

transcription factor
stress induced
microbial community
arabidopsis thaliana
climate change
dna binding
heat stress
plant growth
genome wide identification
oxidative stress
hydrogen peroxide
nitric oxide
visible light