Claim · model-written summary
Silencing GhEPFL1-1 increased stomatal density.
- Taxon
- cotton
Gossypium hirsutumt0 - Treatment
- Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) of GhEPFL1-1e0
- Gene
- GhEPFL1-1e0
- Outcome
- stomatal densitye0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) of GhEPFL1-1, GhER1, and GhSERK17 led to increased stomatal density and reduced drought tolerance”
t0“cotton”
Title
Shichang He; Huijian Sun; Qing Chen; et al. BMC Plant Biology 2025. doi:10.1186/s12870-025-06797-z
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Observation Four cotton species contained 135 identified EPF/EPFL genes.
- Observation Four cotton species contained 18 identified ERECTA genes.
- Observation Four cotton species contained 6 identified TMM genes.
- Observation Four cotton species contained 90 identified SERK genes.
- Observation Bioinformatic analysis indicated functional divergence and stress-related regulatory potential among these cotton gene families.
- Observation GhEPFL1-1, GhER1 and GhSERK17 expression responded to abiotic stress in G. hirsutum.
- Intervention effect Silencing GhER1 increased stomatal density.
- Intervention effect Silencing GhSERK17 increased stomatal density.
- Intervention effect Silencing GhEPFL1-1 reduced drought tolerance.
- Intervention effect Silencing GhER1 reduced drought tolerance.
- Intervention effect Silencing GhSERK17 reduced drought tolerance.
- Observation GhEPFL1-1 directly interacted with GhER1 in Nicotiana benthamiana.
- Observation GhSERK17 formed a co-receptor complex with GhEPFL1-1 and GhER1 in Nicotiana benthamiana.