Various genes get upregulated in plants during adverse environmental conditions, which alter the metabolic functions to mitigate the stress effects for adaptation. Therefore, it is important to know the regulatory motifs of stress-induced genes for given stress tolerance. We reported a database of abiotic stress-responsive genes curated from publicly available microarray datasets earlier (1) and HMM-based models were used to identify binding sites for the transcription factors belonging to these stress-inducible genes (2).
nucleic acid sequence transcription