Gene Details:

• Gene ID: Zm00001eb310270
• Gene Symbol: ZmWRKY79 wrky79 WRKY53
• Gene Name: WRKY-transcription factor 79
• Genome: Zm-B73-REFERENCE-NAM-5.0
• Species: Zea mays

Functional Descriptions:

• Maize WRKY Transcription Factor ZmWRKY79 Positively Regulates Drought Tolerance through Elevating ABA Biosynthesis.
• ZmWRKY79 was identified as the regulator of maize phytoalexin biosynthesis with inducible expression under different elicitation.
• This study substantiates the role of ZmWRKY79 in the drought-tolerance mechanism through regulating ABA biosynthesis, suggesting its broad functions not only as the regulator in phytoalexin biosynthesis against pathogen infection but also playing the positive role in abiotic stress response, which provides a WRKY candidate gene to improve drought tolerance for maize and other crop plants.
• ZmWRKY79 regulates phytoalexin biosynthetic gene expression.
• ZmWRKY79 potential master regulator in stress response through involvement in phytohormone metabolism or signaling and ROS scavenging.
• ZmWRKY79 positively regulates maize phytoalexin biosynthetic gene expression and is involved in stress response.

Function-related keywords:

• transcription-factor ,  drought ,  stress ,  drought-stress ,  tolerance ,  abiotic-stress ,  aba ,  drought-tolerance ,  stress-tolerance ,  pathogen ,  transcription-regulator ,  phytohormone ,  aba-biosynthesis ,  stress-response ,  drought-stress-response ,  drought-response ,  abiotic-stress-response

Literature:

• Maize WRKY Transcription Factor ZmWRKY79 Positively Regulates Drought Tolerance through Elevating ABA Biosynthesis.   DOI:  10.3390/ijms221810080 ;  PMID:  34576244
• ZmWRKY79 positively regulates maize phytoalexin biosynthetic gene expression and is involved in stress response.   DOI:  10.1093/jxb/erx436 ;  PMID:  29281032

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Gene Resources:

• NCBI ID: LOC100193434
• UniProt accessions: K7UVX8

Sequences:

Source: Genetic information comes from the article