Abstract:

Yield and quality of cotton have been seriously influenced by the Verticillium wilt and environment stresses such as drought, salinity, cold and so on. Molecular biology has been employed to make cotton more resistant to disease and variety stresses. ERF subfamily members of ethylene-responsive factor of ERF family show improved disease-tolerance and stress-tolerance no matter in wild type or in over-expression plants. In this paper, structure, classification, function, signaling transduction pathway and application of ERF subfamily genes from different species in different wild type or transgenic plants were reviewed, and suggestions were made about cotton resistant breeding according by researches of ERFs in different plants.