RICE SCIENCE ›› 2010, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (1): 60-72 .DOI: 10.1016/S1672-6308(08)60105-5

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Research Progress on Functional Analysis of Rice WRKY Genes

SONG Yu1, 2, AI Chong-rui1, JING Shao-juan1, 2, YU Di-qiu1   

  1. 1)Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China; 2)Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bejing 100049, China
  • 收稿日期:2009-09-03 修回日期:1900-01-01 出版日期:2010-03-28 发布日期:2010-03-28
  • 通讯作者: YU Di-qiu
  • 基金资助:
    the Science Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KSCX2-YW-N-007), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 30370803), the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2005DKA21006), and ‘Hundred Talents’ Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

摘要: Rice is a model plant for genomic study of grass species. Functional identification and definition of rice genes becomes the object of its functional genomics research. WRKY gene superfamily, one of the transcription factor gene families, was recently suggested to play important roles in plant development and stress response. In rice, the results of analyses of expression pattern and ectopic overexpressor lines also support this viewpoint, and the evidences implicate rice WRKY proteins in transcriptional reprogramming during biotic or abiotic stresses, senescence, sugar metabolites, and morphological architecture. In this paper, we review the advance in study of rice WRKY gene family and also propose unified nomenclature for rice WRKY factors to eliminate confusion.

关键词: rice, WRKY gene, gene function, transcription factor