the sucrose non-fermenting 1-related protein kinase 2 (snrk2) family members are plant unique serine/threonine kinases which play a key role in cellular signaling in response to abiotic stresses. the three snrk2 members including srk2d, srk2i and srk2e are known to phosphorylate major abscisic acid (aba) responsive transcription factors, abf2 and abf4, involved in an aba-dependent stress signal...

vacuolar h+-translocation pyrophosphatase (v-ppase) and na+/h+ antiporter (v-na+/h+) are important transporters in plant cells and have essential roles against abiotic stresses. in this study, the effects of salt stress were surveyed on the transcription of v-ppase pump and na+/h+ antiporter genes at early times of nacl treatment in roots of halophytic grass leptochloa fusca through the real ti...

The sucrose non-fermenting 1-related protein kinase 2 (SnRK2) family members are plant unique serine/threonine kinases which play a key role in cellular signaling in response to abiotic stresses. The three SnRK2 members including SRK2D, SRK2I and SRK2E are known to phosphorylate major abscisic acid (ABA) responsive transcription factors, ABF2 and ABF4, involved in an ABA-dependent stress signal...

Wounding of plants leads to endogenous rise of jasmonic acid (JA) accompanied with the expression of a distinct set of genes. Among them are those coding for the allene oxide cyclase (AOC) that catalyses a regulatory step in JA biosynthesis, and for 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase 2 (DXS2), an enzyme involved in isoprenoid biosynthesis. To address the question how roots and shoots of Me...

Most plants encounter stress such as drought and salinity that adversely affect growth, development and crop productivity. The expression of the gene glutathione-s-transferases (GST) extends throughout various protective mechanisms in plants and allows them to adapt to unfavorable environmental conditions. GSTF1 (the first phi GSTFs class) gene expression patterns in the wheat cultivars Mahuti ...

The quality of olive oil is influenced by genetic and environmental factors and by the maturation state of drupes, but it is equally affected by technological treatments of the process. This work investigates the possible correlation between olive LOX gene transcript accumulation, evaluated in fruits collected at different stages of maturation, and chemical biomarkers of its activity. During ol...

in this study, accumulation of h2o2, malondialdehyde (mda) (as cold-induced oxidative stress indicators), the transcript levels of dehydrin and beta-glucosidase genes (involved in metabolic responses) was evaluated in chickpea cv. jam, using qrt-pcr during control, cold acclimation (ca), cold stress (cs), recovery, and freezing phases. results showed the existence of wide range of genetic capac...

The herpes simplex virus type 1 latency-associated transcript (LAT) inhibits apoptosis. We demonstrate here that LAT influences the accumulation of the Bcl-x(L) transcript versus the Bcl-x(S) transcript in Neuro-2A cells. Bcl-x(L) encodes an antiapoptotic protein, whereas Bcl-x(S) encodes a proapoptotic protein. Promoting the accumulation of Bcl-x(L) in neurons may inhibit apoptosis, thus enhan...

most plants encounter stress such as drought and salinity that adversely affect growth, development and crop productivity. the expression of the gene glutathione-s-transferases (gst) extends throughout various protective mechanisms in plants and allows them to adapt to unfavorable environmental conditions. gstf1 (the first phi gstfs class) gene expression patterns in the wheat cultivars mahuti ...