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Temporal transcriptomic profiling reveals the positive role of NtWRKY40 in drought responses in tobacco.
Plant Physiology and Biochemistry · · Journal Article · Open access
Zhang, Liu + more
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NtWRKY40 is identified as a putative hub gene in the pink co-expression module linked to early drought response in Nicotiana tabacum, and its overexpression improves drought tolerance.
- Why it matters: Drought reduces crop yield and quality, but tobacco’s regulatory control of drought response is still unclear.
- What they did: Tobacco transcriptome sequencing across multiple drought time points was analyzed with WGCNA, producing 27 drought-responsive modules; NtWRKY40 was nuclear-localized and mainly expressed at late developmental stages.
- The result: Compared with WT, NtWRKY40-overexpressing lines showed higher survival rates and maximum quantum efficiency of PSII (Fv/Fm), lower malondialdehyde (MDA), H 2 O 2 and O 2 •- , and increased SOD, POD, and CAT activities, indicating enhanced ROS scavenging.
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