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The WRKY Transcription Factor Family in Model Plants and Crops
First author: Fei Chen; Affiliations: Fujian Agriculture and Forestry (福建农林大学): Fuzhou, China
Corresponding author: Liangsheng Zhang (张亮生)
The WRKY gene family in flowering plants encodes a large group of transcription factors (TFs) that play essential roles in diverse stress responses, developmental, and physiological processes. In this review, we provided a comprehensive screenshot about the studies on WRKY TFs in model plants and in crops of economical relevance. Specifically, we discussed the history of discovery and functional characterization, classification, and evolutionary history, 3D structure and physiological functions of WRKY transcription factors. Based on the previous functional studies of WRKY genes in model plants such as Arabidopsis and rice, we summarized various roles of WRKY TFs in a broad range of biological processes as well as their degradation process. We also discussed the characterization and functional studies of WRKY TFs in important crops. Considering the rapid progress of high-throughput techniques, especially genomics and transcriptomics, which have been instrumental in advancing our understanding of the crop genomes, we comment one-by-one on the applications of a suite of new and high-throughput techniques to accelerate the studies of WRKY genes in crops.
开花植物中的WRKY基因家族编码了一大群的转录因子,在植物多个胁迫抗性、发育和生理过程中发挥重要作用。本文综述了关于WRKY转录因子正在模式植物和重要经济作物中的研究进展。作者主要讨论了WRKY转录因子的发现历史、功能鉴定、分类及演化历史、3D结构模型和生理功能。基于前人在模式植物拟南芥和水稻中的功能研究,作者总结了WRKY转录因子在广泛的生物学过程中所发挥的作用,以及其降解过程。作者还讨论了重要作物物种中WRKY转录因子的功能鉴定和研究。考虑到高通量技术的快速发展,尤其是基因组学和转录组学领域的迅猛发展,极大的促进了我们对于作物物种基因组的理解,作者还一一讨论了应用新的高通量测序技术对于加速WRKY转录因子在作物中的研究的促进作用。
通讯:张亮生 (http://net.fafu.edu.cn/hist/13/e4/c6013a136164/page.htm)
个人简介:2002-2006年,长江大学数学系,理学学士;2006-2009年,上海大学数学系,理学硕士;2009-2012年,复旦大学生命科学学院,遗传学,理学博士。2012-2013年,美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学,生物系博士后。
研究方向:主要从事植物基因组和生物信息学的研究,研究材料不只是局限于模式植物拟南芥,还拓展到作物和园艺植物,如香蕉、油菜、蝴蝶兰、石斛、杜仲和睡莲等植物;在植物基因家族进化,生物信息学和基因组学方面取得了优异的研究成果。
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/07352689.2018.1441103
Journal: Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences
Published online: 05 March, 2018
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