reviewFrontiers in Plant ScienceJun 3, 2016GOLD OA

WRKY Transcription Factors: Molecular Regulation and Stress Responses in Plants

UJUjjal J. PhukanGSGajendra Singh JeenaRKRakesh Kumar Shukla

Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

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Abstract

Plants in their natural habitat have to face multiple stresses simultaneously. Evolutionary adaptation of developmental, physiological, and biochemical parameters give advantage over a single window of stress but not multiple. On the other hand transcription factors like WRKY can regulate diverse responses through a complicated network of genes. So molecular orchestration of WRKYs in plant may provide the most anticipated outcome of simultaneous multiple responses. Activation or repression through W-box and W-box like sequences is regulated at transcriptional, translational, and domain level. Because of the tight regulation involved in specific recognition and binding of WRKYs to downstream promoters, they…

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Keywords
  • WRKY protein domain
  • Biology
  • Transcription factor
  • Epigenetics
  • Psychological repression
  • Promoter
  • Computational biology
  • Arabidopsis
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Life in Land
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