Table 2.
Function of NAC transcription factors in abiotic stresses.
| Genes | Functions | Method | Species | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANAC019/AT1G52890 | Drought, high salinity, ABA signaling | Overexpression | A. thaliana | Tran et al., 2004 |
| ANAC055/AT3G15500 | Drought, high salinity, ABA signaling | Overexpression | A. thaliana | Tran et al., 2004 |
| ANAC072/AT4G27410 | Drought, high salinity, ABA signaling | Overexpression | A. thaliana | Tran et al., 2004 |
| RD26, RD20, Glyoxalase, Glutathione, transferase, Aldo/keto reductase, senesence associated gene13, cinnamil-alcohol dehydrogenase | Drought, salt and ABA response | Overexpression | A. thaliana | Fujita et al., 2004 |
| ANAC019, COR47, RD29b, FER1, ERD11 | Cold, ABA signaling | Overexpression | A. thaliana | Jensen et al., 2010 |
| anac092-1, ANAC083, ANAC041, ANAC054, ANAC084 | Positive regulator of seed germination under salinity | Mutant | A. thaliana | Balazadeh et al., 2010 |
| ntl8-1 | Positive regulator of seed germination under salinity | Mutant | A. thaliana | Kim et al., 2008 |
| ATAF1, COR47, ERD10, KIN1, RD22, RD29A | Positive regulator of drought tolerance | knockouts (ataf1-1/2) | A. thaliana | Lu et al., 2007 |
| ATAF1, ADH1, RD29A, COR47 | Positive regulator of drought tolerance | Overexpression | A. thaliana | Wu et al., 2009 |
| ONAC063 | Higher seed germination under high salinity and osmotic stress | Overexpression | A. thaliana | Yokotani et al., 2009 |
| AhNAC2, RD29A, RD29B, RAB18, ERD1, AtMYB2, AtMYC2, COR47, COR15a, KIN1, AREB1, CBF1 | Drought and salt tolerance | Overexpression | A. thaliana | Liu et al., 2011 |
| GmNAC20, DREB1A/CBF3, KIN2/cor6.6, Cor15A, RD29A/cor78, ARF19, LBD12, AIR1 | Salt and freezing tolerance | Overexpression | G. max, A. thaliana | Hao et al., 2011 |
| NTL8 | Salt tolerance, GA, and ABA pathway | Gene expression | A. thaliana | Kim et al., 2008 |
| ANAC019, ANAC055 | Defense disease, JA pathway | Overexpression | A. thaliana | Bu et al., 2008 |
| XND1 | Programmed cell death | Overexpression | A. thaliana | Zhao et al., 2008 |
| LOV1 | Cold response, photoperiod pathway | Overexpression | A. thaliana | Yoo et al., 2007 |
| NAC1 | Auxin, root development | Overexpression | A. thaliana | Guo et al., 2005 |
| ZmSNAC1 | Low temperature, high-salinity, drought stress, and abscisic acid (ABA) | Transgenic | Z. mays | Lu et al., 2012 |
| NTL6, SnRK2.8 | Drought-stress response | Overexpression/ RNAi | A. thaliana | Kim et al., 2012 |
| ANAC019, ANAC055 and ANAC072, ICS1 and BSMT1 | Inhibits salicylic acid accumulation | Transgenic | A. thaliana | Zheng et al., 2012 |
| TaNAC2 | Drought, salt, and freezing stresses | Overexpression | A. thaliana | Mao et al., 2012 |
| ANAC2/AT3G15510 | Salt and ABA stress tolerance | Overexpression | A. thaliana | He et al., 2005 |
| SNAC1/Os03g60080 | Stomata close, higher seed setting | Overexpression | O. sativa | Hu et al., 2006 |
| SNAC2/OsNAC6/Os01g66120 | Salt, drought, disease resistance drought, salinity, cold, wounding, and abscisic acid (ABA) treatment | Overexpression | O. sativa | Sindhu et al., 2008 |
| OsNAC5/ Os11g08210 | ABA, salt, cold tolerance, grain filling | Overexpression | O. sativa | Sperotto et al., 2009 |
| ONAC04/Os11g033005 | Drought, salt, cold tolerance | Overexpression | O. sativa | Zheng et al., 2009 |
| OsNAC10/Os11g03300 | Root, panicle, drought, salt, ABA | Overexpression | O. sativa | Jeong et al., 2010 |
| Ostil1 | Shoot branching | Overexpression | O. sativa | Mao et al., 2007 |
| RIM1/Os03g02800 | JA pathway signaling | Mutant | O. sativa | Yoshii et al., 2010 |
| Os07g04560, Os10g38834 | Root, severe drought | Microarray | O. sativa | Nuruzzaman et al., 2012b |
| Os01g28050, Os01g29840 | Leaf, severe drought | Microarray | O. sativa | Nuruzzaman et al., 2012b |
| Os03g12120, Os03g59730, Os06g15690, Os08g06140, Os08g33670 | Panicle, severe drought | Microarray | O. sativa | Nuruzzaman et al., 2012b |
| Os12g41680, Os07g48550, Os11g03300, Os12g03040, Os01g66120, Os05g34830, | Cold, drought, submergence, laidown-submergnece | Microarray | O. sativa | Nuruzzaman et al., 2010 |
| Os02g34970, Os07g48450, Os01g01430, Os01g48460 | Drought, submergence, laidown-submergnece | Microarray | O. sativa | Nuruzzaman et al., 2010 |
| OsOAT, SNAC2 | Drought and oxidative stress tolerance | Overexpression | O. sativa | You et al., 2013 |
| SNAC1, OsSRO1c | Oxidative stress tolerance | Overexpression | O. sativa | You et al., 2013 |
| TaNAC69 | PEG-induced dehydration | Overexpression | T. aestivum | Xue et al., 2011 |
| GmNAC11, DREB1A, ERD11, Cor15A, ERF5, RAB18, KAT2 | Salt tolerance in soybean transgenic hairy roots | Overexpression | G. max | Hao et al., 2011 |
| GmNAC glycoside hydrolases, defensins and glyoxalase I family proteins | Drought stress | Soybean array GeneChip | G. max | Le et al., 2011 |
| GmNAC085 | Dehydration stress | Soybean Affymetrix array | G. max | Le et al., 2011 |
| TaNAC2a | Drought tolerance | Overexpression | N. tabacum | Tang et al., 2012 |
| DgNAC1 | ABA, NaCl, drought and cold | Overexpression | N. tabacum | Liu et al., 2011 |
| CarNAC3 | Seed germination, drought, ethephon, ABA, IAA signaling | Transcriptome | C. arietinum | Peng et al., 2009 |
| miR319, AsNAC60 | Drought and salinity stress | Agrostis stolonifera | Zhou et al., 2013 | |
| EcNAC1 | Water-deficit and salt stress | Overexpression | N. tabacum | Ramegowda et al., 2012 |
| AhNAC2 | Salt | Overexpression | Arachis | Liu et al., 2011 |
| RhNAC2 or RhEXPA4 | Dehydration tolerance | Transgenic | R. hybrida | Dai et al., 2012 |
| ClNAC | Hormonal treatments including salt, drought, cold, heat, abscisic acid and salicylic acid treatments | Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction | C. lavandulifolium | Huang et al., 2012 |
| CsNAM | Drought, osmoticum, salt, heat and hydrogen peroxide | Camellia sinensis | Paul et al., 2012 | |
| Os04g0477300 | Boron-toxicity tolerance | RNA interference | O. sativa | Ochiai et al., 2011 |
| SiNAC | Dehydration, salinity, ethephon, and methyl jasmonate. | Transcription | S. italica | Puranik et al., 2011 |
| ANAC102 | Waterlogging | Overexpression | A. thaliana | Christianson et al., 2009 |
| HSImyb and HSINAC | Gibberellin response | Transcript | H. vulgare | Robertson, 2004 |
| ANAC042 it is also in biotic | Heat stress | Overexpression | A. thaliana | Shahnejat-Bushehri et al., 2012 |
| TaNAC2a, TaNAC4a, TaNAC6, TaNAC7, TaNAC13 and TaNTL5 | Dehydration, salinity and low temperature | Transgenic | T. aestivum | Tang et al., 2012 |
| TaNAC4 | Environmental stimuli, including high salinity, wounding, and low-temperature also induced | Transcription | T. aestivum | Xia et al., 2010a |
| ONAC063 | High-temperature and high-salinity | Transactivation | O. sativa | Yokotani et al., 2009 |