Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Natural variation of DROT1 confers drought adaptation in upland rice

  • Xingming Sun,
  • Haiyan Xiong,
  • Conghui Jiang,
  • Dongmei Zhang,
  • Zengling Yang,
  • Yuanping Huang,
  • Wanbin Zhu,
  • Shuaishuai Ma,
  • Junzhi Duan,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Haifeng Guo,
  • Gangling Li,
  • Jiawei Qi,
  • Chaobo Liang,
  • Zhanying Zhang,
  • Jinjie Li,
  • Hongliang Zhang,
  • Lujia Han,
  • Yihua Zhou,
  • Youliang Peng,
  • Zichao Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31844-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Genetic basis of the drought tolerance of upland rice is unclear. Here, the authors report the cloning of a COBRA-like protein encoding gene DROT1 and reveal that it is repressed by ERF3 and activated by ERF71 to help control the balance between growth and drought tolerance in upland rice.