Drought Stress in Millets and Its Response Mechanism Author Tiwari, Anjali Author Kesarwani, Kapil Author Sharma, Arushi Author Ghosh, Tapan Author Bisht, Nisha Author Punetha, Shailja text Clinical & translational immunology 2022 2022-12-14 9 8 121 151 https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.105942 journal article 10.5772/intechopen.105942 19247969

Table 6. Drought-tolerance genes and their key characteristics in millets.

Genes	Plants response	References
Foxtail millet
SiLEA 14	It enhances tolerance in Arabidopsis plants to drought stress	[40]
SiARDP	Increased drought and salt tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis	[41]
SiCDPK24	Improved drought resistance in transgenic Arabidopsis	[51]
SiLTP	Enhanced drought and salt tolerance in transgenic tobacco	[52]
SiATG8a	It enhances tolerance in Arabidopsis plants to drought stress and nitrogen starvation	[53]
SiNF-YA1, SiNFYB8	Increased drought, salinity and osmotic stress tolerance in tobacco	[54]
SiASR1	Improved tolerance to drought and oxidative stress tolerance in transgenic tobacco	[55]
SiASR4	Increased drought and salt stress tolerance in transgenic foxtail millet and Arabidopsis	[56]
SiMYB56	It enhances drought tolerance in transgenic rice plants	[57]
Finger millet
EcDehydrin7	Overexpression of EcDehydrin7 increased drought tolerance in transgenic tobacco	[42]
Ec-apx1	Enhanced drought tolerance in plant	[43]
EcbHLH57	Conferred drought, salt and oxidative tolerance in transgenic tobacco plants	[44]
EcbZIP60	Displayed tolerance to drought stress with enhanced photosynthesis in tobacco	[45]
EcGBF3	Enhanced drought, Osmotic and salinity tolerance in Arabidopsis	[46]
EcbZIP17	Improved tolerance to various environmental stresses via ER signalling pathways	[47]
Mt1D	Overexpression of mt1D in finger millet showed better osmotic adjustment and chlorophyll retention under drought	[48]
Metallothionein	Increased drought tolerance	[49]
Farnesylated protein ATFP6	Improved tolerance to drought stress	[49]
Farnesyl pyrophosphate synthase	Enhanced tolerance to drought stress	[49]
Protein phosphatase 2A	Improved tolerance to drought stress	[49]
RISBZ4	Improved tolerance to drought stress	[49]
Pearl millet
PgCA	Upregulate PgCA when it exposed to drought condition	[50]
PgGPx	Improved drought and salt in transgenic rice	[58]
PgRab7	Transgenic rice plants displayed to drought and salinity stress	[59]
PgeIF4A	Enhanced tolerance to drought, salinity and oxidative stress in groundnut	[60]