Drought stress is one of the most adverse abiotic stresses that hinder plants' growth and
productivity, threatening sustainable crop production. It impairs normal growth, disturbs …

Plants as sessile organisms are exposed to persistently changing stress factors. The primary
stresses such as drought, salinity, cold and hot temperatures and chemicals are …

Background The heat shock response of Arabidopsis thaliana is dependent upon a complex
regulatory network involving twenty-one known transcription factors and four heat shock …

Small heat shock proteins (sHsps) are produced ubiquitously in prokaryotic and eukaryotic
cells upon heat. The special importance of sHsps in plants is suggested by unusual …

The most crucial function of plant cell is to respond against stress induced for self-defence.
This defence is brought about by alteration in the pattern of gene expression: qualitative and …

The storage of fruits and vegetables at low temperature near the freezing point is the
foremost technology applied to retard postharvest ripening and to extend the shelf‐life …

Above-optimal temperatures reduce yield in tomato largely because of the high heat stress
(HS) sensitivity of the developing pollen grains. The high temperature response, especially …

The tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) chloroplast small heat shock protein (sHSP), HSP21,
is induced by heat treatment in leaves, but also under normal growth conditions in …

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a model plant for studying fleshy fruit development.
Several genetic and molecular approaches have been developed to increase our …

The small heat shock proteins (sHsps), which are ubiquitous stress proteins proposed to act
as chaperones, are encoded by an unusually complex gene family in plants. Plant sHsps …