PMID- 35092312
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220225
LR  - 20220225
IS  - 1399-3054 (Electronic)
IS  - 0031-9317 (Linking)
VI  - 174
IP  - 1
DP  - 2022 Jan
TI  - Unraveling the contribution of OsSOS2 in conferring salinity and drought 
      tolerance in a high-yielding rice.
PG  - e13638
LID - 10.1111/ppl.13638 [doi]
AB  - Abiotic stresses are emerging as a potential threat to sustainable agriculture 
      worldwide. Soil salinity and drought will be the major limiting factors for rice 
      productivity in years to come. The Salt Overly Sensitive (SOS) pathway plays a 
      key role in salinity tolerance by maintaining the cellular ion homeostasis, with 
      SOS2, a S/T kinase, being a vital component. The present study investigated the 
      role of the OsSOS2, a SOS2 homolog from rice, in improving salinity and drought 
      tolerance. Transgenic plants with either overexpression (OE) or knockdown (KD) of 
      OsSOS2 were raised in one of the high-yielding cultivars of rice-IR64. Using a 
      combined approach based on physiological, biochemical, anatomical, microscopic, 
      molecular, and agronomic assessment, the evidence presented in this study 
      advocates the role of OsSOS2 in improving salinity and drought tolerance in rice. 
      The OE plants were found to have favorable ion and redox homeostasis when grown 
      in the presence of salinity, while the KD plants showed the reverse pattern. 
      Several key stress-responsive genes were found to work in an orchestrated manner 
      to contribute to this phenotype. Notably, the OE plants showed tolerance to 
      stress at both the seedling and the reproductive stages, addressing the two most 
      sensitive stages of the plant. Keeping in mind the importance of developing crops 
      plants with tolerance to multiple stresses, the present study established the 
      potential of OsSOS2 for biotechnological applications to improve salinity and 
      drought stress tolerance in diverse cultivars of rice.
CI  - (c) 2022 Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society.
FAU - Kumar, Gautam
AU  - Kumar G
AD  - Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, 
      Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
FAU - Basu, Sahana
AU  - Basu S
AD  - Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, 
      Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
FAU - Singla-Pareek, Sneh L
AU  - Singla-Pareek SL
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0521-2622
AD  - Plant Molecular Biology, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and 
      Biotechnology, New Delhi, India.
FAU - Pareek, Ashwani
AU  - Pareek A
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2923-0681
AD  - Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, 
      Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
AD  - National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali, India.
LA  - eng
GR  - Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, and Institutional Umbrella 
      support over the years under DST-FIST and PURSE/
GR  - UGC-UPEII, DRS, and Networking/
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Denmark
TA  - Physiol Plant
JT  - Physiologia plantarum
JID - 1256322
RN  - 0 (Plant Proteins)
SB  - IM
MH  - Droughts
MH  - Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
MH  - *Oryza/metabolism
MH  - Plant Proteins/genetics/metabolism
MH  - Plants, Genetically Modified/genetics
MH  - Salinity
MH  - Salt Tolerance/genetics
MH  - Stress, Physiological/genetics
EDAT- 2022/01/30 06:00
MHDA- 2022/02/26 06:00
CRDT- 2022/01/29 08:35
PHST- 2022/01/25 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2021/12/08 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/01/26 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/01/30 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/02/26 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/01/29 08:35 [entrez]
AID - 10.1111/ppl.13638 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Physiol Plant. 2022 Jan;174(1):e13638. doi: 10.1111/ppl.13638.