Overexpression of MEKK18 from Arabidopsis pumila in rice significantly enhances stress resistance at the early stage

• Junrong Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junrong Li, Yilin Yang, Zhanglun Sun

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Innovation and Green Production, College of Agriculture, Anhui Science and Technology University, Chuzhou Anhui, China

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• Yilin Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junrong Li, Yilin Yang, Zhanglun Sun

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Innovation and Green Production, College of Agriculture, Anhui Science and Technology University, Chuzhou Anhui, China, College of Life Sciences, Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang, China

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• Zhanglun Sun ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junrong Li, Yilin Yang, Zhanglun Sun

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Innovation and Green Production, College of Agriculture, Anhui Science and Technology University, Chuzhou Anhui, China, College of Life Sciences, Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang, China

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• Edwin Afriyie Owusu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Innovation and Green Production, College of Agriculture, Anhui Science and Technology University, Chuzhou Anhui, China

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• Leiming Liu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Innovation and Green Production, College of Agriculture, Anhui Science and Technology University, Chuzhou Anhui, China, College of Life Sciences, Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang, China

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• Tianrun Mei,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Innovation and Green Production, College of Agriculture, Anhui Science and Technology University, Chuzhou Anhui, China

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• Qingli Zhang,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Innovation and Green Production, College of Agriculture, Anhui Science and Technology University, Chuzhou Anhui, China

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• Xianzhong Huang

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

  * E-mail: huangxz@ahstu.edu.cn

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Innovation and Green Production, College of Agriculture, Anhui Science and Technology University, Chuzhou Anhui, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1264-8106

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