Engineering drought and salinity tolerance traits in crops through CRISPR-mediated genome editing: Targets, tools, challenges, and perspectives

RM Shelake, US Kadam, R Kumar, D Pramanik… - Plant …, 2022 - cell.com
Prolonged periods of drought triggered by climate change hamper plant growth and cause
substantial agricultural yield losses every year. In addition to drought, salinity is one of the …

The CBL–CIPK calcium signaling network: unified paradigm from 20 years of discoveries

RJ Tang, C Wang, K Li, S Luan - Trends in Plant Science, 2020 - cell.com
Calcium (Ca 2+) serves as an essential nutrient as well as a signaling agent in all
eukaryotes. In plants, calcineurin B-like proteins (CBLs) are a unique group of Ca 2+ …

To fight or to grow: the balancing role of ethylene in plant abiotic stress responses

H Chen, DA Bullock Jr, JM Alonso, AN Stepanova - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plants often live in adverse environmental conditions and are exposed to various stresses,
such as heat, cold, heavy metals, salt, radiation, poor lighting, nutrient deficiency, drought, or …

C2H2 zinc finger proteins: master regulators of abiotic stress responses in plants

G Han, C Lu, J Guo, Z Qiao, N Sui, N Qiu… - Frontiers in plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Abiotic stresses such as drought and salinity are major environmental factors that limit crop
yields. Unraveling the molecular mechanisms underlying abiotic stress resistance is crucial …

Tomato salt tolerance mechanisms and their potential applications for fighting salinity: A review

M Guo, XS Wang, HD Guo, SY Bai, A Khan… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
One of the most significant environmental factors affecting plant growth, development and
productivity is salt stress. The damage caused by salt to plants mainly includes ionic …

How plants tolerate salt stress

H Fu, Y Yang - Current Issues in Molecular Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Soil salinization inhibits plant growth and seriously restricts food security and agricultural
development. Excessive salt can cause ionic stress, osmotic stress, and ultimately oxidative …

The calcium transporter ANNEXIN1 mediates cold‐induced calcium signaling and freezing tolerance in plants

Q Liu, Y Ding, Y Shi, L Ma, Y Wang, C Song… - The EMBO …, 2021 - embopress.org
The transient elevation of cytosolic free calcium concentration ([Ca2+] cyt) induced by cold
stress is a well‐established phenomenon; however, the underlying mechanism remains …

Biosynthesis and functions of very-long-chain fatty acids in the responses of plants to abiotic and biotic stresses

M Batsale, D Bahammou, L Fouillen, S Mongrand… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Very-long-chain fatty acids (ie, fatty acids with more than 18 carbon atoms; VLCFA) are
important molecules that play crucial physiological and structural roles in plants. VLCFA are …

A Ca2+-sensor switch for tolerance to elevated salt stress in Arabidopsis

L Steinhorst, G He, LK Moore, S Schültke… - Developmental Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Excessive Na+ in soils inhibits plant growth. Here, we report that Na+ stress triggers primary
calcium signals specifically in a cell group within the root differentiation zone, thus forming a" …

Sensory circuitry controls cytosolic calcium-mediated phytochrome B phototransduction

Y Zhao, H Shi, Y Pan, M Lyu, Z Yang, X Kou, XW Deng… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Although Ca 2+ has long been recognized as an obligatory intermediate in visual
transduction, its role in plant phototransduction remains elusive. Here, we report a Ca 2+ …