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Drought and salinity are the most common environmental stresses that cause major loss to crop productivity. To combat such stresses and to satisfy the world food demand, it is desired to develop stress tolerant crop plants. To date, transgenic approach, mainly by overexpressing stress-responsive transcription factors (TFs) is highly appreciated. TFs can activate large set of genes that participate towards multiple stress response. TFs are thus considered as potential candidates for developing stress tolerant plants. Most of the TFs, which play important role in abiotic stress tolerance in plants, fall into major TF families namely AP2/EREBP, NAC, MYB/MYC, WRKY, bZIP, bHLH and ZFP etc. In the current chapter, we have discussed the role of major TF families in enhancing salt and/or drought tolerance in plants. Additionally, we have also discussed the importance of multiple-stress responsive promoters in engineering plants with sustainable abiotic stress tolerance.

Author

Parul Goel; Monika Bhuria; Ragini Sinha; Tilak Raj Sharma; Anil Kumar Singh

Publisher

Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9789811506918

Subjects

Science, Technology, Engineering