“…Further, since RD29a is a stress-induced gene, it could promote DREB1a expression sustainably during stress conditions. RD29a promoter induced DREB1a transcripts to 2 -10-fold higher under salinity, cold, and drought conditions in Arabidopsis, rice, and peanut (Latha et al, 2019;Oh et al, 2005;Sarkar et al, 2016), and transgenic expression of RD29a:DREB1a conferred tolerance to salinity, drought, and cold stress in diverse plant species including rice (Datta et al, 2012;Ganguly et al, 2020;Geda et al, 2019;Latha et al, 2019;Muthurajan et al, 2021;Oh et al, 2005;Ravikumar et al, 2014;), peanuts (Bhalani et al, 2019;Bhatnagar-Mathur et al, 2007;Devi et al, 2011;Sarkar et al, 2016) chickpea (Anbazhagan et al, 2015), soybean (de Paiva et al, 2014), chrysanthemum (Hong et al, 2006), potato (Behnam et al, 2007;Shimazaki et al, 2016) and Salvia sp. (Wei et al, 2016).…”