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The full-length cDNA is 2088 bp and contains an open reading frame of 1914 bp encoding a putative polypeptide of 638 amino acids with a mass of 67.8 kDa. CaF-box was expressed predominantly in stems and seeds, and the transcript was markedly upregulated in response to cold stress, abscisic acid (ABA) and salicylic acid (SA) treatment, and downregulated under osmotic and heavy metal stress. CaF-box expression was dramatically affected by salt stress, and was rapidly increased for the first hour, then sharply decreased thereafter. In order to further assess the role of CaF-box in the defense response to abiotic stress, a loss-of-function experiment in pepper plants was performed using a virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) technique. Measurement of thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) and electrolyte leakage revealed stronger lipid peroxidation and cell death in the CaF-box-silenced plants than in control plants, suggesting CaF-box plays an important role in regulating the defense response to abiotic stress resistance in pepper plants.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijms15022413","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,2,10]],"date-time":"2014-02-10T11:52:37Z","timestamp":1392033157000},"page":"2413-2430","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":49,"title":["A Novel F-Box Protein CaF-Box Is Involved in  Responses to Plant Hormones and Abiotic Stress in  Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.)"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Rugang","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University,  Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Weili","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China"},{"name":"School of Horticulture Landscape Architecture, Henan Institute of Science and Technology, Xinxiang 453003, Henan, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yanxu","family":"Yin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University,  Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhen-Hui","family":"Gong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University,  Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,2,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"555","DOI":"10.1146\/annurev.arplant.55.031903.141801","article-title":"The ubiquity in 26S proteasome proteolytic pathway","volume":"55","author":"Smalle","year":"2004","journal-title":"Annu. 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