“…SMRGs including MYB15 ( Marchev et al, 2020 ), NAC29 ( Huang et al, 2015 ; Wang T. T. et al, 2019 ), TLP3 ( Ibrahim and Jaafar, 2013 ; Bao et al, 2014 ), HFB2A ( Paupiere et al, 2020 ), WRKY27 , OLE16 ( Shao et al, 2019 ), BBE8 ( Daniel et al, 2017 ), LEA3 ( Zhao et al, 2011 ), CHSY ( Dao et al, 2011 ), DRE1D ( Agarwal et al, 2017 ), Malate synthase ( de Kraker and Gershenzon, 2011 ), cycloartenol synthase ( Jin et al, 2017 ) and CASL1 ( Taura et al, 2007 ) in drought enhances secondary metabolite responsive pathways and exert to provide tolerance in the adverse condition in drought stress condition. In salt, several identified genes such as TLP ( Zare-Hassani et al, 2019 ; de Jesus-Pires et al, 2020 ), WRKY6 ( Robatzek and Somssich, 2001 ; Afrin et al, 2015 ), MMP-2 ( Guo et al, 2019 ), peroxidase 53 ( Novo-Uzal et al, 2014 ), bHLH25 ( Goossens et al, 2019 ; Meraj et al, 2020 ; Yang et al, 2020 ), malate synthase ( Brito et al, 2020 ), carboxylesterase ( Wang et al, 2015 ; Cao et al, 2019 ), 1-deoxy-D-xylulose-5-phosphate synthase 2 ( Paetzold et al, 2010 ), NAC ( He et al, 2019 ), DCS2 ( George et al, 2017 ), XTH ( Choi et al, 2011 ; Guerriero et al, 2018 ), AtHB-7 ( Olsson et al, 2004 ), NCED5 ( Udomchalothorn et al, 2017 ), CAS ( Shirazi et al, 2019 ), ERF ( Meraj et al, 2020 ), galactinol synthase ( Patel et al, 2020 ), EXPA7 ( Jadamba et al, 2020 ) and glutathione S-transferase ( Nazar et al, 2011 ; Czerniawski and Bednarek, 2018 ) are SMRGs exhibited crucial role in providing resistance under salt stress condition. Overall, these putative hub genes might have putative functions in drought and salt stress responses in cotton.…”