On September 25^th, Professor Tao Jun 's team from College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture published a research paper entitled PoWRKY71 is involved in Paeonia ostii resistance to drought stress by directly regulating light-harvesting chlorophyll a / b-binding 151 gene in Horticulture Research. This article reveals the molecular mechanism of transcription factor PoWRKx Y71 regulating drought tolerance of Paeonia ostii by directly activating the expression of photosynthesis-related gene PoCAB151.

This study revealed a new working model of PoWRKY71-PoCAB151 regulating drought tolerance of Paeonia ostii, which provided important references for plant drought resistance breeding.

Further information can be found at https://doi.org/10.1093/hr/uhad194