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Nitrogen (N) is an essential element for crop growth, productivity, and grain quality. The extensive use of synthetic fertilizers in developed countries is expensive and environmentally damaging. Much effort has been made to improve N use efficiency (NUE) in crop plants to allow high-yielding crops to be grown with low N input without significant yield losses. RWP-RKs, which contain a conserved RWP-RK DNA binding motif, are a class of transcription factors (TFs) that control N uptake efficiency and N utilization by sensing nitrate signals [4]. These plant-specific TFs are grouped into two subfamilies: nodule inception (NIN)-like proteins (NLPs) and RWP-RK-domain proteins (RKDs)