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Engineering drought tolerance in plants: discovering and tailoring genes to unlock the future

Umezawa, Taishi, Fujita, Miki, Fujita, Yasunari, Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, Kazuko, Shinozaki, Kazuo·2006·Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Abstract

The ability of plants to tolerate drought conditions is crucial for agricultural production worldwide. Recent progress has been made in our understanding of gene expression, transcriptional regulation and signal transduction in plant responses to drought. Molecular and genomic analyses have facilitated gene discovery and enabled genetic engineering using several functional or regulatory genes to activate specific or broad pathways related to drought tolerance in plants. Several lines of evidence have indicated that molecular tailoring of genes has the potential to overcome a number of limitations in creating drought-tolerant transgenic plants. Recent studies have increased our understanding of the regulatory networks controlling the drought stress response and have led to practical approaches for engineering drought tolerance in plants.

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  • Modifying regulatory genes can alter the expression of multiple downstream stress response genes, and therefore has the potential to produce a more significant and durable phenotypic change than targeting a single functional gene.

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Authors
Umezawa, T., Fujita, M., Fujita, Y., Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, K., & Shinozaki, K.
Affiliations
  • RIKEN (JP)
  • Japan Science and Technology Agency (JP)
  • Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JP)
Corresponding author
Shinozaki, Kazuo
Venue
Current Opinion in Biotechnology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2006-04
Volume
17
Issue
2
Pages
113-122
ISSN
0958-1669 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2091219918
Cited by
802
References
87
Citations by year
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FWCI
2.99
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Current Opinion in Biotechnology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Bio-oriented Technology Research Advancement Institution
  • Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (14760075, 16770043)
  • Japan Science and Technology Agency
  • RIKEN
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Keywords
drought tolerance, transgenic plants, genetic engineering, drought response, transcriptional regulation, signal transduction, gene expression, regulatory networks, plant stress response
MeSH terms
Biotechnology, Dehydration, Disasters, Forecasting, Genetic Engineering, Plants, Genetically Modified

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