High temperature is a major environmental stress that devastatingly affects wheat production. Thenceforth, developing heat-tolerant and high-yielding genotypes has become more critical to sustaining production particularly under abrupt climate change fast-growing global population. The present study aimed evaluate parental their cross combinations normal heat conditions, exploring diversity bas...

Abstract Q. liaotungensis is an important drought-resistant tree species in Northeast China where the climate dry and rainless. In this study, we performed a deep transcriptomic sequencing leaves, including de novo assembly functional annotation for screening candidate genes involved drought avoidance. A total of 25,593 unigenes were obtained from Illumina platform. According to Gene Ontology K...

The AP2/ERF transcription factors (TFs) comprise one of the largest gene superfamilies in plants. These TFs perform vital roles in plant growth, development, and responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. In this study, 171 AP2/ERF TFs were identified in cauliflower (Brassica oleracea L. var. botrytis), one of the most important horticultural crops in Brassica. Among these TFs, 15, 9, and 1 TFs ...

Conifers exhibit a number of constitutive and induced mechanisms to defend against attack by pests and pathogens such as mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) and their fungal associates. Ecological studies have demonstrated that stressed trees are more susceptible to attack by mountain pine beetle than their healthy counterparts. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that wa...

Abstract Background Rose ( Rosa chinensis ) is a traditional famous flower with valuable ornamental characteristics. However, drought stress restricts its growth and development, leading to an abnormal phenotype. One of the main transcription factor (TF) protein groups in plant kingdom are APETALA2/ethylene-responsive (AP2/ERF) proteins potentially involved responses various plants. Results Our...