Journal of experimental botany
The transcription factors SlWRKY48 and SlWRKY44 antagonistically modulate tomato defense against Meloidogyne incognita.
Yingying Wang, Shuang Li, Yihan Hong, Zhun Wang, Xuechun Ma, Jiapeng Liu, Xiaofeng Zhang, Wenchao Zhao, Lulu Sun, Rui Yang, Shaohui Wang, Huang Huang
Published: 202510.1093/jxb/eraf554
Abstract
Agricultural pests root-knot nematodes (RKNs) pose economic losses to global crops. However, the underlying molecular basis of plant defense against RKNs is largely unknown. Here, we demonstrated that SlWRKY44 directly bound to the promoter of SlWRKY…
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