Os01g0165000

The rice Os01g0165000 was reported as OsDREB2A in 2011 by researchers from India.

Annotated Information

Gene Symbol

• Os01g0165000 <=> OsDREB2A, OsDREB2a, ERF40, OsERF#040, OsERF040, OsERF40

Function

• Stress responsive transcriptional regulation is an adaptive strategy of plants that alleviates the adverse effects of environmental stresses.
• The ectopic overexpression of Dehydration-Responsive Element Binding transcription factors (DREBs) either in homologous or in heterologous plants improved stress tolerance indicating the DRE/DREB regulon is conserved across plants.
• OsDREB2A confers stress tolerance in homologous rice system that failed in the heterologous Arabidopsis system earlier.

Phenotypic analysis

• 30 transgenic T0 rice plants overexpressing OsDREB2A were generated by researchers which were devoid of any growth penalty or phenotypic abnormalities during stressed or non-stressed conditions.
• Integration of T-DNA in the rice genome and stress inducible overexpression of OsDREB2A had occurred in these transgenic lines. Functional analyses of T 1-3 and T 1-10 lines revealed significant tolerance to osmotic, salt and dehydration stresses during simu- lated stress conditions with enhanced growth performance as compared to wild type.

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Labs working on this gene

• Plant Molecular Biology Laboratory, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110 067, India