The interplay between miR156/SPL13 and DFR/WD40-1 regulate drought tolerance in alfalfa.

Biruk A FeyissaMuhammad ArshadMargaret Y GruberSusanne E KohalmiAbdelali Hannoufa

Published in: BMC plant biology (2019)

Taken together, our results reveal that moderate relative miR156 transcript levels are sufficient to enhance drought resilience in alfalfa by silencing SPL13 and increasing WD40-1 expression, whereas higher miR156 overexpression results in drought susceptibility.

Keyphrases

cell proliferation
long non coding rna
climate change
long noncoding rna
poor prognosis
arabidopsis thaliana
heat stress
plant growth
transcription factor
high intensity
rna seq
dna methylation