Anyang Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Melatonin modulates antioxidant-hormonal pathways to improve drought tolerance in cotton

Drought stress limits cotton growth and yield. Although exogenous melatonin (MT) can improve drought tolerance, the underlying mechanisms are still unclear. Optimal MT concentrations (100 µM for seed germination and 200 µM for seedlings) were identified in the cotton cultivar Zho...

OsDUF1223 negatively regulates seedling drought tolerance and modulates nitrate-dependent root growth in rice

Rice ( Oryza sativa L.) is a major staple food crop worldwide. Drought stress induced by extreme weather severely limits its growth and yield. Proteins containing domains of unknown function (DUF) play important roles in plant stress responses, but their regulatory mechanisms rem...