Claim · model-written summary
MdCKX5 silencing prevented reactive oxygen species accumulation.
- Taxon
- apple
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- Silencing of MdCKX5e0
- Gene
- MdCKX5e0
- Outcome
- accumulation of reactive oxygen speciese0
- Direction
- preventinge0
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Verbatim
e0“Silencing of MdCKX5 caused CK accumulation thereby enhancing drought tolerance by increasing root vitality and preventing the accumulation of reactive oxygen species”
t0“apple”
Title
Xumei Jia; Shuo Xu; Jiangtong Wei; et al. The Plant Journal 2025. doi:10.1111/tpj.70023
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Observation Juvenile apple plants had better drought tolerance than adults.
- Mechanism MdCKX5 negatively regulates drought tolerance in apple roots.
- Intervention effect MdCKX5 silencing accumulated cytokinin.
- Intervention effect MdCKX5 silencing enhanced drought tolerance.
- Intervention effect MdCKX5 silencing increased root vitality.
- Intervention effect MdCKX5 overexpression reduced drought tolerance.
- Mechanism MdSPL1 directly binds MdCKX5 promoters and represses expression.
- Intervention effect MdSPL1 overexpression increased cytokinin content.
- Intervention effect MdSPL1 overexpression enhanced drought tolerance.
- Mechanism MdMYB23 interacts with MdSPL1 to alleviate MdCKX5 repression.
- Intervention effect Drought stress downregulated MdMYB23.
- Observation Adult apple roots lost capacity to activate the MdSPL1-MdCKX5 cascade.