2019
Manipulating transcription factors to improve drought and salt tolerance in soybean
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Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
GeneticsGenomics
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This is the first year of this project.
Lead Principal Investigator:
Aardra Kachroo, University of Kentucky
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Brief Project Summary:

Abiotic stresses are the most significant impediments to worldwide crop production including that of soybean. The PI’s group has identified four transcription factors (TFs) that regulate abiotic stress tolerance in soybean and other plants. Downregulation of the expression of genes encoding the four NAC TFs lowers soybean tolerance to salt and drought stress. Mutations in the corresponding NAC genes of the model plant Arabidopsis produces similar responses resulting in increased susceptibility to salt and drought stress. Conversely, Arabidopsis plants overexpressing NAC proteins exhibit increased tolerance to both salt and drought stress. Here, we will generate soybean plants that overexpress...

Unique Keywords:
#breeding & genetics
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