Wheat LEA genes, PMA80 and PMA1959, enhance dehydration tolerance of transgenic rice (Oryza sativa L.)

By Zaiquan Cheng, Jayaprakash Targolli, Xingqi Huang, R. Wu. Molecular breeding, 2002

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Subfields: Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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Comprehending crystalline β-carotene accumulation by comparing engineered cell models and the natural carotenoid-rich system of citrus (2011, unknown): “About 10 ng of RNA was used for quantitative real-time PCR.”
Physiology and molecular biology of stress tolerance in plants (2006, background): “Besides the AtNHX family, another gene family has also been identified in Arabidopsis to encode the cation exchangers (CAX genes) responsible for modulation of ion fluxes across the vacuolar membrane (Cheng et al., 2002).”
Inducing drought tolerance in plants: recent advances. (2010, background): “For example, engineering the LEA genes PMA1959 and PMA80 (encoding a group 1 LEA protein and a group 2 LEA protein, respectively; both fromwheat) in rice resulted in enhanced drought tolerance (Cheng et al., 2002).”
Understanding regulatory networks and engineering for enhanced drought tolerance in plants. (2006, background): “Transgenic rice plants that overexpressed the wheat LEA gene PMA80 and transgenic wheat plants that overexpressed the barley LEA gene HVA1 showed enhanced tolerance of water-deficit conditions [40,41].”
Advances in Transgenic Rice Biotechnology (2007, background): “Overexpression of LEA encoding genes from barley or wheat in rice could enhance drought tolerance (Xu et al., 1996a; Rohila et al., 2002; Cheng et al., 2002).”
Crop Production under Drought and Heat Stress: Plant Responses and Management Options (2017, background): “Transgenic lines of wheat, sorghum, and rice have been developed by transferring such genes to improve drought tolerance (Xu et al., 1994; Cheng et al., 2002).”
The continuing conundrum of the LEA proteins (2007, background): “Groups 1 and 2 LEA protein genes from wheat were also able to offer rice similar protection against dehydration stress (Cheng et al. 2002) and the same barley HVA1 gene introduced into wheat endowed better growth and water use under water stress conditions (Sivamani et al.”
LEA (Late Embryogenesis Abundant) proteins and their encoding genes in Arabidopsis thaliana (2008, background): “Expression of the barley gene HVA1 in wheat and rice conferred increased drought tolerance to plants [26,27] and expression of the wheat genes PMA80 and PMA1959 increased the dehydration tolerance of transgenic rice [ 28 ].”
Phenotypic and genotypic analysis of drought-resistance traits for development of rice cultivars adapted to rainfed environments (2008, background): “, 1998); H VA1, encoding late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins (Xu et al., 1996; Cheng et al., 2002; Rohila et al., 2002); T PS and TP, encoding trehalose-6-phosphate synthase and trehalose-6-phosphatase, involved in trehalose biosynthesis (Garg et al.”
Role of DREBs in regulation of abiotic stress responses in plants. (2011, background): “Similar protection against dehydration stress was conferred to transgenic rice expressing Group I and II LEA protein genes from wheat (Cheng et al., 2002).”