<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "Characterization of ASR gene and its role in drought tolerance in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)"^^ . "Chickpea has a profound nutritional and economic value in vegetarian society. Continuous\r\ndecline in chickpea productivity is attributed to insufficient genetic variability and different\r\nenvironmental stresses. Chickpea like several other legumes is highly susceptible to terminal\r\ndrought stress. Multiple genes control drought tolerance and ASR gene plays a key role\r\nin regulating different plant stresses. The present study describes the molecular characterization\r\nand functional role of Abscissic acid and stress ripening (ASR) gene from chickpea\r\n(Cicer arietinum) and the gene sequence identified was submitted to NCBI Genbank\r\n(MK937569). Molecular analysis using MUSCLE software proved that the ASR nucleotide\r\nsequences in different legumes show variations at various positions though ASR genes are\r\nconserved in chickpea with only few variations. Sequence similarity of ASR gene to chickpea\r\nputative ABA/WDS induced protein mRNA clearly indicated its potential involvement in\r\ndrought tolerance. Physiological screening and qRT-PCR results demonstrated increased\r\nASR gene expression under drought stress possibly enabled genotypes to perform better\r\nunder stress. Conserved domain search, protein structure analysis, prediction and validation,\r\nnetwork analysis using Phyre2, Swiss-PDB viewer, ProSA and STRING analysis\r\nestablished the role of hypothetical ASR protein NP_001351739.1 in mediating drought\r\nresponses. NP_001351739.1 might have enhanced the ASR gene activity as a transcription\r\nfactor regulating drought stress tolerance in chickpea. This study could be useful in identification\r\nof new ASR genes that play a major role in drought tolerance and also develop functional\r\nmarkers for chickpea improvement."^^ . "2020-07" . . . "15" . "7" . . "Public Library of Science"^^ . . . "PLOS ONE (TSI)"^^ . . . "19326203" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "S"^^ . "Sachdeva"^^ . "S Sachdeva"^^ . . "M"^^ . "Roorkiwal"^^ . "M Roorkiwal"^^ . . "B S"^^ . "Patil"^^ . "B S Patil"^^ . . "R K"^^ . "Varshney"^^ . "R K Varshney"^^ . . "C"^^ . "Bharadwaj"^^ . "C Bharadwaj"^^ . . "R K"^^ . "Singh"^^ . "R K Singh"^^ . . "P K"^^ . "Jain"^^ . "P K Jain"^^ . . "N"^^ . "Baisakh"^^ . "N Baisakh"^^ . . . . . . "Characterization of ASR gene and its role in drought tolerance in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) (PDF)"^^ . . . . . "file.pdf"^^ . . . "Characterization of ASR gene and its role in drought tolerance in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #11589 \n\nCharacterization of ASR gene and its role in drought tolerance in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Chickpea"@en . . . "Genetics and Genomics"@en . .