Dongzhi Wang, Xiuxiu Zhang, Yuan Cao, Aamana Batool, Yongxin Xu, Yunzhou Qiao, Yongpeng Li, Hao Wang, Xuelei Lin, Xiaomin Bie, Xiansheng Zhang, Ruilian Jing, Baodi Dong, Yiping Tong, Wan Teng, Xigang Liu, Jun Xiao
Cultivating high-yield wheat under limited water resources is crucial for sustainable agriculture in semiarid regions. Amid water scarcity, plants activate drought response signaling, yet the delicate balance between drought tolerance and development remains unclear. Through genome-wide association studies and transcriptome profiling, we identified a wheat atypical basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor (TF), TabHLH27-A1, as a promising quantitative trait locus candidate for both relative root dry weight and spikelet number per spike in wheat...
May 2, 2024: Journal of Integrative Plant Biology