Stress-responsive transcription factor families are key components of the core abiotic stress response in maize.

Abiotic stresses, including drought, salt, heat, cold, flooding, and low nitrogen, have devastating impacts on agriculture and are increasing in frequency globally due to climate change. Plants can experience multiple abiotic stresses simultaneously or sequentially within a single growing season, and combinatorial stresses elicit shared or overlapping molecular and physiological responses. Here, we searched for core stress responsive genes in maize across diverse abiotic stressors through meta-analysis of public RNAseq data.

The triose phosphate utilization limitation of photosynthetic rate: Out of global models but important for leaf models.

The effect of including triose phosphate utilization (TPU) on parameterization of the Farquhar, von Caemmerer, Berry model of photosynthetic gas exchange measurements is explored. Better fits to data are found even though TPU rarely limits photosynthesis under physiological conditions.