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Overexpression of TAS1a, whose trans-acting small interfering RNAs target the HTT genes, elevated accumulation of TAS1-siRNAs and reduced expression levels of the HTT genes, causing weaker thermotolerance. By contrast, overexpression of HTT1 and HTT2 upregulated several Hsf genes, leading to stronger thermotolerance. In heat-tolerant plants overexpressing HsfA1a, the HTT genes were upregulated, especially at high temperatures. Meanwhile, HsfA1a directly activated HTT1 and HTT2 through binding to their promoters. HTT1 interacted with the heat shock proteins Hsp70-14 and Hsp40 and NUCLEAR FACTOR Y, SUBUNIT C2. Taken together, these results suggest that HTT1 mediates thermotolerance pathways because it is targeted by TAS1a, mainly activated by HsfA1a, and acts as cofactor of Hsp70-14 complexes.</jats:p>","journal":"The Plant Cell","year":2014,"id":22896,"datarank":5.2952616235733805,"base_score":5.2832037287379885,"endowment":5.2832037287379885,"self_citation_contribution":0.7924805593106984,"citation_network_contribution":4.502781064262682,"self_endowment_contribution":0.7924805593106984,"citer_contribution":4.502781064262682,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":196,"citer_count":188,"citers_with_citation_signal":163,"citers_with_endowment":163,"datacite_reuse_total":14,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":58054,"name":"Jinxin 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