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  • Cold stress is really bad for plants and can stop them from growing and blooming.
  • Researchers are looking into a special gene called WRKY that helps plants survive cold temperatures better.
  • Plants with this WRKY gene can recover faster and have more protection against damage from the cold compared to regular plants.

Article Abstract

Cold stress poses a serious threat to the survival and bloom of . The enhancement of the cold tolerance of is the central concern of our research. The WRKY transcription factor (TF) family was paid great attention to in the field of abiotic stress. The gene was obtained from . The predicted protein contained two typical WRKY domains and two C2H2 zinc-finger motifs. Under cold stress, in leaves was more greatly induced than that in stems and roots. The overexpression (OE) in increased cold tolerance compared with wild-type (WT). Under cold stress, the OE lines possessed showed greater recovery after cold-treatment restoration ratios, proline content, soluble sugar content, and activities of antioxidant enzymes than WT; the relative electrolyte conductivity (EL), the accumulation of malondialdehyde (MDA), hydrogen peroxide (HO), and superoxide anion (O ) are lower in OE lines than that in WT. In addition, a series of cold-response genes of OE lines were compared with WT. The results revealed that worked as a positive regulator by up-regulating transcription levels of cold-responsive genes. The genes above can contribute to the elevation of antioxidant activities, maintain the membrane stability, and raise osmotic regulation ability, leading to the enhancement of the survival capacity under cold stress. According to this work, could serve as an essential gene to confer enhanced cold tolerance in plants.

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