Identification and expression analyses of WRKY genes reveal their involvement in growth and abiotic stress response in watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)

• Xiaozhen Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaozhen Yang, Hao Li

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China

  ⨯
• Hao Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaozhen Yang, Hao Li

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China

  ⨯
• Yongchao Yang,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China, Wenshan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wenshan, China

  ⨯
• Yongqi Wang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China, Hanzhong City Agro-technology Extension Center, Hanzhong, China

  ⨯
• Yanling Mo,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Yangtze Normal University, Fuling, China

  ⨯
• Ruimin Zhang,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China

  ⨯
• Yong Zhang,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China

  ⨯
• Jianxiang Ma,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China

  ⨯
• Chunhua Wei ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xjwend020405@163.com (CHW); zhangxian098@126.com (XZ)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China

  ⨯
• Xian Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xjwend020405@163.com (CHW); zhangxian098@126.com (XZ)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9254-0730

  ⨯