PgLEA, a gene for late embryogenesis abundant proteinfrom Panax ginseng, enhances drought and salt tolerancein transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana

Plants are usually sessile species and their growth and development are substantially influenced by the surrounding environment. Additionally, diverse environmental stressors, including drought and high salinity, severely restrict plant development, damage plant tissues, and under extreme conditions, can lead to death (Wang et al. 2003, Wu et al. 2014). Plants have various physiological and biochemical mechanisms to mitigate the harm caused by adverse conditions (Zhang et al. 2018). When plants are subjected to abiotic stress, they often synthesize a range of functional proteins that protect different tissues from damage. Among the plant cell-protective proteins induced by abiotic stress, there has been considerable interest in the late embryogenesis