Recent Advances in Utilizing Transcription Factors to Improve Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance by Transgenic Technology

Agricultural production and quality are adversely affected by various abiotic stresses worldwide and this will be exacerbated by the deterioration of global climate. To feed a growing world population, it is very urgent to breed stress-tolerant crops with higher yields and improved qualities against multiple environmental stresses. Since conventional breeding approaches had marginal success due to the complexity of stress tolerance traits, the transgenic approach is now being popularly used to breed stress-tolerant crops. So identifying and characterizing the critical genes involved in plant stress responses is an essential prerequisite for engineering stress-tolerant crops. Far beyond the manipulation of…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 2013CB430403, XY-003-02, 41171216, CX(15)1005, JKLBS2014005
• GO
  Government of Jiangsu Province

  Award: BE2013429
• JK
  Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Bioresources of Saline Soils

  Awards: 41171216, JKLBS2014005, CX(15)1005, 2013CB430403, XY-003-02
• NK
  National Key Research and Development Program of China

  Awards: 2013CB430403, JKLBS2014005, CX(15)1005, 2013CB430400, 41171216, XY-003-02
• OF
  Open Foundation of Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Bioresources of Saline Soils