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 …

Plant aquaporins and abiotic stress

N Sade, M Moshelion - Plant Aquaporins: From Transport to Signaling, 2017 - Springer
The global shortage of fresh water is one of our most severe ecological and agronomical
problems, leading to dry and saline lands that reduce plant growth and crop yield and have …

A PIP1 aquaporin contributes to hydrostatic pressure-induced water transport in both the root and rosette of Arabidopsis

O Postaire, C Tournaire-Roux, A Grondin… - Plant …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Aquaporins are channel proteins that facilitate the transport of water across plant cell
membranes. In this work, we used a combination of pharmacological and reverse genetic …

Regulation of root water uptake under drought stress conditions

R Aroca, JM Ruiz-Lozano - Plant responses to drought stress: from …, 2012 - Springer
Drought is one of the most stressful conditions limiting plant yield around the world. Most
efforts have been made in studying how aerial parts contribute to plant drought tolerance …

Aquaporins of plants: structure, function, regulation, and role in plant water relations

MJ Chrispeels, R Morillon, C Maurel, P Gerbeau… - 2001 - Elsevier
Plants are sessile organisms, and wherever they find themselves, they have to adapt to the
challenges that their environment has in store for them, whether heat, cold, drought, flood …

Aquaporin activity to improve crop drought tolerance

A Shekoofa, TR Sinclair - Cells, 2018 - mdpi.com
In plants, aquaporins (AQP) occur in multiple isoforms in both plasmalemma and tonoplast
membranes resulting in regulation of water flow in and out of cells, and ultimately, water …

Aquaporin structure–function relationships: water flow through plant living cells

CX Zhao, HB Shao, LY Chu - Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 2008 - Elsevier
Plant aquaporins play an important role in water uptake and movement—an aquaporin that
opens and closes a gate that regulates water movement in and out of cells. Some plant …

Advances in functional regulation mechanisms of plant aquaporins: Their diversity, gene expression, localization, structure and roles in plant soil-water relations

HB Shao, LY Chu, HB Shao, LY Chu… - Molecular Membrane …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Aquaporins are important molecules that control the moisture level of cells and water flow in
plants. Plant aquaporins are present in various tissues, and play roles in water transport, cell …

Aquaporins, and not changes in root structure, provide new insights into physiological responses to drought, flooding, and salinity

JC Domec, JS King, MJ Carmichael… - Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The influence of aquaporin (AQP) activity on plant water movement remains unclear,
especially in plants subject to unfavorable conditions. We applied a multitiered approach at …

Plant aquaporins

I Baiges, AR Schäffner, MJ Affenzeller… - Physiologia …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Aquaporins are ubiquitous membrane channel proteins that facilitate and regulate the
permeation of water across biological membranes. Aquaporins are members of the MIP …