Guide to Plant Transcription Factors

Guide to Plant Transcription Factors is the first comprehensive resource on the dynamics of transcription factor function in plants, covering their roles in process regulation, stress management, post-translational modification, and epigenetic control.The book explores how transcription factors can be manipulated or engineered for crop improvement, offering insights into their regulatory mechanisms and practical applications. Transcription factors bind to upstream regions of target genes and recruit additional proteins, often facilitating chromatin remodeling to enable further binding.They play critical roles in diverse physiological processes, including seedling development, shoot and root growth, flowering, fruit ripening, seed maturation, nitrogen fixation, and photosynthesis.Plant transcription factors belong to numerous families, each with distinct mechanisms and functions.They also govern plant responses to pathogens and tolerance to abiotic stresses through complex gene regulato