Corrigendum: Physcomitrella Patens Dehydrins (PpDHNA and PpDHNC) Confer Salinity and Drought Tolerance to Transgenic Arabidopsis Plants

Large-scale genome sequencing reveals the driving forces of viruses in microalgal evolution

“…Agronomical engineering depends on the use of foreign genes, such as the pest resistance cassettes used in a variety of productive GMO crops. Transgenic approaches using plant and non-plant photosynthetic organisms have proved to be useful in conferring tolerance to drought and high soil salinity (Cabello et al, 2017;Dabi et al, 2019;Fan et al, 2019;He et al, 2019;Huang et al, 2017;Li et al, 2017Li et al, , 2018Mushke et al, 2019;Passricha et al, 2019;Sun et al, 2017;Tang et al, 2019;Udawat et al, 2017;Wu et al, 2017;Xu et al, 2018;Yao et al, 2016). Generally, these studies have focused on overexpression or ablation of plant genes to augment halotolerance (Mushke et al, 2019;Passricha et al, 2019;Sun et al, 2017;Tang et al, 2019;Udawat et al, 2017).…”

“…Generally, these studies have focused on overexpression or ablation of plant genes to augment halotolerance (Mushke et al, 2019;Passricha et al, 2019;Sun et al, 2017;Tang et al, 2019;Udawat et al, 2017). Still, the use of genes from more distantly related organisms, such as Physcomitrella (Li et al, 2017(Li et al, , 2018, has been remarkably effective in increasing plant halotolerance. Genes from saltwater photosynthetic microbes, especially microalgae, are excellent candidates for agronomical biotechnology applications.…”

The Poplar (Populus trichocarpa) Dehydrin Gene PtrDHN-3 Enhances Tolerance to Salt Stress in Arabidopsis

“…In Arabidopsis, the KS-type DHN AtHIRD11 inhibited the production of hydrogen peroxide and hydroxyl free radicals in the copper ascorbate system [ 24 ], while knock-out of DHN genes Gh_A05G1554 ( GhDHN_03 ) and Gh_D05G1729 ( GhDHN_04 ) reduced the ability of cotton plants to tolerate osmotic pressure and salt stress [ 25 ]. Furthermore, mutant plants obtained via knock-out of PpDHNA , a DHN gene isolated from the moss Physcomitrella patens , expressed severely impaired growth under salt and osmotic stress [ 26 ]. The important protective role of DHN during cell dehydration has also been shown.…”