Tobacco drought stress responses reveal new targets for Solanaceae crop improvement.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-30-2015
Publication Title
BMC Genomics
Volume
16
Issue
1
First page number:
484
Abstract
The Solanaceae are an economically important family of plants that include tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.), tomato, and potato. Drought is a major cause of crop losses. We propose components of a core metabolic response to drought stress in plants and also show that some major responses to drought stress at the metabolome and transcriptome levels are family specific. We therefore propose that the observed family-specific changes in metabolism are regulated, at least in part, by family-specific changes in transcription factor activity. We also present a list of potential targets for the improvement of Solanaceae drought responses.
Repository Citation
Rabara, R. C.,
Tripathi, P.,
Reese, R. N.,
Rushton, D. L.,
Alexander, D.,
Timko, M. P.,
Shen, Q. J.,
Rushton, P. J.
(2015).
Tobacco drought stress responses reveal new targets for Solanaceae crop improvement..
BMC Genomics, 16(1),
484.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-015-1575-4