Drought stress-inducible synthetic promoters designed for poplar are functional in rice

Plant Cell Rep. 2024 Feb 12;43(3):69. doi: 10.1007/s00299-024-03141-x.

Yongil Yang¹, Paolo Tagaloguin^{2

3}, Timothy A Chaffin¹, Yuanhua Shao^{1

2}, Mitra Mazarei^{1

2}, Reginald J Millwood², C Neal Stewart Jr^{4

5}

¹ Center for Agricultural Synthetic Biology, University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, Knoxville, TN, USA.
² Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.
³ Science Department, Mindanao State University-General Santos, Fatima, 9500, General Santos City, Philippines.
⁴ Center for Agricultural Synthetic Biology, University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, Knoxville, TN, USA. nealstewart@utk.edu.
⁵ Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA. nealstewart@utk.edu.

Abstract

Water deficit-inducible synthetic promoters, SD9-2 and SD18-1, designed for use in the dicot poplar, are functional in the monocot crop, rice.

Keywords: Inducible promoters; Synthetic biology; Water stress; synthetic promoters.