The complex transcriptional regulation of heat stress response in maize

• DOI: 10.1007/s44154-024-00165-x
• Publication Date: 2024-04-26T08:02:12Z
• Authors: Mingxiu Ruan; Heng Zhao; Yujing Wen; Hao Chen; Feng He; Xingbo Hou; Xiaoqin Song; Haiyang Jiang; Yong-Ling Ruan; Leiming Wu
• Keywords: 0303 health sciences; 03 medical and health sciences; Transcriptional regulation; Interaction; QH301-705.5; Review; Biology (General); Heat stress; Maize; Epigenetic regulation

As one of the most important food and feed crops worldwide, maize suffers much more tremendous damages under heat stress compared to other plants, which seriously inhibits plant growth reduces productivity. To mitigate heat-induced adapt high temperature environment, plants have evolved a series molecular mechanisms sense, respond temperatures stress. In this review, we summarized recent advances in regulations underlying sensing, response memory maize, especially focusing on several pathways signals complex transcriptional regulation ZmHSFs (Heat Shock Factors) response. addition, highlighted interactions between epigenetic factors coordinately regulating memory. Finally, laid out strategies systematically elucidate regulatory network response, discussed approaches for breeding future heat-tolerance maize.