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Enhancement of drought tolerance in rice by silencing of the OsSYT-5 gene.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2021
Shanmugam Sudha, Boyett Virginia Ann, Khodakovskaya Mariya
Abstract excerpt
Improvement of drought tolerance of crops is a great challenge in conditions of increasing climate change. This report describes that the silencing of the synaptotagmin-5 (OsSYT-5) gene encoding the rice Ca2+ sensing protein with a C2 domain led to a significant improvement of rice tolerance to water deficit stress. Transgenic lines with suppressed expression of the OsSYT-5 gene exhibited an enhanced...
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