Since water problems are universal, look beyond drought-prone areas, Strowd advises, to wherever you're interested in locating.
Orthologous drought-responsive universal stress proteins could be candidates to engineer desired phenotypes in plants.
We hypothesize that cross-database mining of functional annotations in protein and gene transcript bioinformatics resources would help identify candidate drought-responsive universal stress proteins and transcripts from multiple plant species.
We identified stress-responsive genes such as Stress-response protein NST1 (AOSB460), Universal stress protein (AOSF1521), Drought-induced protein RDI (CAON1066), Recombination repair protein 1 (andB392), and Senescence-associated protein (CAOO2479, CAOO703) among others.
Drinking water is a universal concern but manageable," reported drought assessor Matthew Kanua.
The universal nature of the identified drought-adaptive genes was further validated in a fifth species, Brachypodium distachyon that was not included in the meta-analysis.
Two TF genes encoding bZIP (OsbZIP14, Os01g0867300) and HB (Os02g0649300) proteins were commonly induced in all tissues at the three development stages, indicating that these two TF genes might be involved in the universal regulation of rice response to drought.
"The drought was great, and practically universal.
In summary, we identified diverse plant universal stress proteins and transcripts responsive to drought including those that contain microsatellite markers that may regulate their function.
However, some secondary physiological traits have been investigated as a drought tolerance measurement and some universal genes, such as NAC transcription factors, are involved in abiotic stress response in different varieties and even species [ 60, 61].
