The roles of aquaporins in plant stress responses

Z Afzal, TC Howton, Y Sun, MS Mukhtar - Journal of developmental …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Aquaporins are membrane channel proteins ubiquitously present in all kingdoms of life.
Although aquaporins were originally discovered as water channels, their roles in the …

Versatile roles of aquaporin in physiological processes and stress tolerance in plants

RK Singh, R Deshmukh, M Muthamilarasan… - Plant Physiology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Aquaporins are pore-forming transmembrane proteins that facilitate the movement of water
and many other small neutral solutes across the cells and intracellular compartments. Plants …

Aquaporins in a challenging environment: molecular gears for adjusting plant water status

DT LUU, C Maurel - Plant, Cell & Environment, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Plants have to adjust their water balance in response to very challenging environmental
conditions such as drought, salinity, and cold but also changes in light, nutrient deficiency or …

The cellular dynamics of plant aquaporin expression and functions

C Maurel, V Santoni, DT Luu, MM Wudick… - Current opinion in plant …, 2009 - Elsevier
Aquaporins are channel proteins that facilitate the transport of water and small neutral
molecules, including gases, across cell membranes of most of the living organisms …

Aquaporins in plants

C Maurel, Y Boursiac, DT Luu, V Santoni… - Physiological …, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
Aquaporins are membrane channels that facilitate the transport of water and small neutral
molecules across biological membranes of most living organisms. In plants, aquaporins …

Plant aquaporins: roles in plant physiology

G Li, V Santoni, C Maurel - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-General …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Aquaporins are membrane channels that facilitate the transport of water and
small neutral molecules across biological membranes of most living organisms. Scope of …

Plant aquaporins: membrane channels with multiple integrated functions

C Maurel, L Verdoucq, DT Luu… - Annu. Rev. Plant Biol., 2008 - annualreviews.org
Aquaporins are channel proteins present in the plasma and intracellular membranes of plant
cells, where they facilitate the transport of water and/or small neutral solutes (urea, boric …

Aquaporins and root water uptake

GA Gambetta, T Knipfer, W Fricke… - Plant aquaporins: from …, 2017 - Springer
Water is one of the most critical resources limiting plant growth and crop productivity, and
root water uptake is an important aspect of plant physiology governing plant water use and …

Plant aquaporins alleviate drought tolerance in plants by modulating cellular biochemistry, root‐architecture, and photosynthesis

J Patel, A Mishra - Physiologia Plantarum, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Water is a vital resource for plants to grow, thrive, and complete their life cycle. In recent
years, drastic changes in the climate, especially drought frequency and severity, have …

Regulation of plant aquaporin activity

F Chaumont, M Moshelion, MJ Daniels - Biology of the Cell, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Accumulating evidence indicates that aquaporins play a key role in plant water relations.
Plant aquaporins are part of a large and highly divergent protein family that can be divided …