Title

Views on biotic stress response links to transcription factors in plants

Authors

Abu Barkat Md Gulzar*, Islamul Hoque Laskar, Udaya Kumar Vandana, P. Mazumder

Affiliation

Department of Biotechnology, Assam University, Silchar, Assam, India

Email

Abu Barkat Md Gulzar - E-mail: gulzar.hussain282@gmail.com; *Corresponding author

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Submitted on July 3, 2020; Revision July 31, 2020; Accepted August 2, 2020; Published September 30, 2020

It is known that biotic and abiotic stress hinder plant growth and development. The expression of transcription factors in response to pathogen-related (PR) proteins is observed. The role of various signalling pathways and stress-responsive genes in the defence mechanism against biotic stress is documented. Therefore, it is of interest to document data related to the molecular identification and genetic editing of transcription factors linked to stress in crop improvement. Hence, we review known information (basic structure, and regulatory mechanisms) on four transcription factor families (WRKY, NAC, bZIP, MYB) involved in biotic stresses.

Keywords

Transcription factors; biotic stress; WRKY; NAC; bZIP; MYB; PR protein; Salicylic acid; Jasmonic acid; hypersensitive cell death.

Citation

Gulzar et al. Bioinformation 16(9): 652-665 (2020)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.