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Transcription Factor-Based Genetic Engineering for Salinity Tolerance in Crops

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Salinity Responses and Tolerance in Plants, Volume 1

Abstract

Salinity is one of the major environmental factors limiting productivity of all important crops. With an alarming increase of the world’s population, the sustainable agriculture produce is needed to feed the growing population. The decrease in agricultural land due to industrialization/urbanization and climate change poses a threat to agriculture. The genetic engineering of crops can serve as a promising technique and can significantly contribute to addressing food security and also add economic value to the world’s farming systems. The deployment of stress-responsive transcription factors for providing salinity tolerance to crops is an interesting area at the forefront of research. In the present chapter, we discuss the mechanism of regulation of important transcription factors, namely, dehydration-responsive element-binding factors, myeloblastosis oncogene, myelocytomatosis oncogene, NACs and WRKYs, and also provide an update of the transgenics developed and characterized using these TFs for enhanced salinity tolerance.

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Abbreviations

ABA:

Abscisic acid

ABRE:

ABA-responsive element

AP2/ERF:

Apetala2/ethylene-responsive factor CDPK

bZIP:

Basic leucine zipper

CaBD:

Calmodulin-binding domain

CaMV:

Cauliflower mosaic virus

CDPK:

Calcium-dependent protein kinase

CK2:

Casein kinase 2

DBD:

DNA-binding domain

DRE:

Dehydration-responsive element

DREB:

Dehydration-responsive element-binding factor

ERD1:

Early responsive to dehydration stress

ET:

Ethylene

HTH:

Helix–turn–helix

MAPK:

Mitogen-activated protein kinase

MeJA:

Methyl jasmonate

MYB:

Myeloblastosis oncogene

MYC:

Myelocytomatosis oncogene

NACRS:

NAC recognition site

PKC:

Protein kinase C

PP2Cs:

Protein phosphatase 2C

ROS:

Reactive oxygen species

SA:

Salicylic acid

TF:

Transcription factor

TRD:

Transcription regulatory domain

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Agarwal, P., Agarwal, P.K., Gohil, D. (2018). Transcription Factor-Based Genetic Engineering for Salinity Tolerance in Crops. In: Kumar, V., Wani, S., Suprasanna, P., Tran, LS. (eds) Salinity Responses and Tolerance in Plants, Volume 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75671-4_7

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