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SiTIFY9 enhances salt stress tolerance and promotes early flowering in foxtail millet.
Plant Physiology and Biochemistry · · Journal Article · Open access
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SiTIFY9 overexpression in foxtail millet (Setaria italica) improves salt-stress tolerance by reducing H2O2 and malondialdehyde while boosting antioxidant enzymes and proline.
- Why it matters: Soil salinity limits growth via osmotic stress, ion toxicity, and excessive ROS, yet SiTIFY protein roles in foxtail millet salt tolerance are unclear.
- What they did: The team profiled SiTIFY9 (Seita.9G51810), confirmed nuclear localization and lack of autonomous transcriptional activation in yeast, then used stable overexpression with physiological assays and transcriptome sequencing.
- The result: Under salt stress, SiTIFY9-overexpressing plants showed reduced H2O2 and malondialdehyde, higher catalase/peroxidase and proline, restricted Na+ accumulation with improved K+/Na+ ratio, and transcriptome shifts; they also flowered 14–16 days earlier under non-saline conditions.
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