Allelic variation of TaWD40-4B.1 contributes to drought tolerance by modulating catalase activity in wheat

Drought stress limits wheat production around the world. Here, the authors report allelic variation of a WD40 encoding gene TaWD40-4B.1 contributes to wheat drought tolerance by interacting with canonical catalases as a chaperone to promote their activities to avoid ROS over accumulation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Geng Tian, Shubin Wang, Jianhui Wu, Yanxia Wang, Xiutang Wang, Shuwei Liu, Dejun Han, Guangmin Xia, Mengcheng Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36901-6