Abstract
Environmental anxieties such as high salinity, drought and extreme temperatures are major abiotic stresses that influence plant survival, growth, productivity and geographical distribution of many essential significant crops over the globe. Plants react to these environmental cues by means of cellular, physio-biochemical and molecular processes, results in adjustment of metabolic and structural alterations and adaptation in plants largely controlled by cascades of molecular networks/ pathways. In recent past dehydration-responsive element-binding (DREB) proteins have been extensively studied and contemplated in improving tolerance to abiotic stresses. This transcription factor belongs to APETALA2 (AP2) family and binds to DRE/CRT cis-element and regulates the stress-responsive genes expression independent to abscisic acid (ABA). Utilizing these regulatory genes and elements, generating transgenic plants looks a potential option in administration of abiotic stresses in crop plants. In the present review, role of DREB gene(s) and their expression behavior and transcriptional regulation in response to multiple abiotic stresses in many crop plants including cash crop like sugarcane is narrated, and concomitantly strategizes their implications in stress breeding and transgenic research.
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Abbreviations
- ABA:
-
Abscisic acid
- DREB:
-
Dehydration-responsive element-binding proteins
- DRE:
-
Dehydration-responsive element
- HSP:
-
Heat shock proteins
- CBF/DREB:
-
Cold-binding factor/dehydration responsive element binding
- TFs:
-
Transcription factors
- ERF:
-
Ethylene responsive element binding factors
- ROS:
-
Reactive oxygen species
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Singh, K., Chandra, A. DREBs-potential transcription factors involve in combating abiotic stress tolerance in plants. Biologia 76, 3043–3055 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11756-021-00840-8
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