Biotechnological detoxification: an unchanging source-sink balance strategy for crop improvement.

The wide occurrence of natural phytotoxins renders many crops unfit for human consumption. To overcome this problem and produce detoxified crop varieties, we propose the use of biotechnological strategies that can enhance the harvest index without the need to increase crop biomass or alter whole plant architecture.

Improvement of plant tolerance to drought stress by cotton tubby-like protein 30 through stomatal movement regulation.

Introduction: Cotton is a vital industrial crop that is gradually shifting to planting in arid areas. However, tubby-like proteins (TULPs) involved in plant response to various stresses are rarely reported in cotton. The present study exhibited that GhTULP30 transcription in cotton was induced by drought stress.

Comprehensive Genome-Wide Analysis of Thaumatin-Like Gene Family in Four Cotton Species and Functional Identification of Involved in Regulating Tolerance to and Drought.

Thaumatin-like proteins (s) present in the form of large multigene families play important roles in biotic stress and abiotic stress. However, there has been no systematic analysis of the s in cotton. In this study, comprehensive identification and evolutionary analysis of s in four species of cotton were conducted.

GhTULP34, a member of tubby-like proteins, interacts with GhSKP1A to negatively regulate plant osmotic stress.

Tubby-like protein genes (TULPs), present in the form of large multigene families, play important roles in environmental stress. However, little is known regarding the TULP family genes in cotton. In this study, we systematically identified and analyzed the membership, characterization, and evolutionary relationship of TULPs in four species of cotton.

Rorippa indica Regeneration via Somatic Embryogenesis Involving Frog Egg-like Bodies Efficiently Induced by the Synergy of Salt and Drought Stresses.

Frog egg-like bodies (FELBs), novel somatic embryogenesis (SE) structures first observed in Solanum nigrum, were induced in Rorippa indica. NaCl-mediated salt and mannitol-mimicked drought stresses induced FELBs in R. indica, which is very different from the induction by plant growth regulators (PGRs) under low light condition that was used in S.