Physiological and Transcriptome Analysis of the Effects of Exogenous Strigolactones on Drought Responses of Pepper Seedlings

• Main Authors: Huangying Shu (Author), Muhammad Ahsan Altaf (Author), Naveed Mushtaq (Author), Huizhen Fu (Author), Xu Lu (Author), Guopeng Zhu (Author), Shanhan Cheng (Author), Zhiwei Wang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2023-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Drought stress significantly restricts the growth, yield, and quality of peppers. Strigolactone (SL), a relatively new plant hormone, has shown promise in alleviating drought-related symptoms in pepper plants. However, there is limited knowledge on how SL affects the gene expression in peppers when...