bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/849398; this version posted November 21, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC 4.0 International license. 1 Running title: SiGRFs in foxtail millet: SiGRF1 hastens flowering in plants exposed to salt stress 2 3 Genomic Characterization of SiGRFs in Foxtail Millet and 4 SiGRF1-overexpression in Arabidopsis thaliana Promotes Plant to 5 Avoid Salt Stress 6 Jiaming Liu1†, Chengyao Jiang2†, Lu Kang1, Chongchang Zhang1, Yu Song4, Weijun Zheng3* 7 1 State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Life Sciences, 8 Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China; 9 2 College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100,China 10 3 College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China; 11 4. Institute of Germplasm Resources, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Science, Urumqi, China, 12 *Corresponding author: E-mail:
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[email protected] 20 21 22 23 Highlight:SiGRFs in foxtail millet: SiGRF1 hastens flowering in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana exposed to salt 24 stress 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/849398; this version posted November 21, 2019.