Abiotic stress responses in plants: an overview

HW Koyro, P Ahmad, N Geissler - … and stress tolerance of plants in the era …, 2012 - Springer
Plants are more and more affected by environmental stresses, especially by the devastating
consequences of desertification and water scarcity which can be seen and felt all over the …

[PDF][PDF] Proline dehydrogenase: a key enzyme in controlling cellular homeostasis

C Servet, T Ghelis, L Richard, A Zilberstein… - Front Biosci, 2012 - researchgate.net
Introduction 3. ProDH, a universal enzyme in life kingdom 4. Localization of ProDH 5. ProDH
has multiphysiological roles 5.1. Energy production 5.2. ROS production for cell cycle …

Prospects of halophytes in understanding and managing abiotic stress tolerance

VH Lokhande, P Suprasanna - … adaptations and stress tolerance of plants …, 2012 - Springer
Halophytes are a diverse group of plants with tolerance to high salinity. While most of our
crops are glycophytes lacking the genetic makeup for salt tolerance, halophytes are …

The SbSOS1 gene from the extreme halophyte Salicornia brachiata enhances Na+loading in xylem and confers salt tolerance in transgenic tobacco

NS Yadav, PS Shukla, A Jha, PK Agarwal, B Jha - BMC plant biology, 2012 - Springer
Background Soil salinity adversely affects plant growth and development and disturbs
intracellular ion homeostasis resulting cellular toxicity. The Salt Overly Sensitive 1 (SOS1) …

Overexpression of dehydrin tas14 gene improves the osmotic stress imposed by drought and salinity in tomato

A Muñoz-Mayor, B Pineda, JO Garcia-Abellán… - Journal of plant …, 2012 - Elsevier
One strategy to increase the level of drought and salinity tolerance is the transfer of genes
codifying different types of proteins functionally related to macromolecules protection, such …

Comparison of freezing tolerance, compatible solutes and polyamines in geographically diverse collections of Thellungiella sp. and Arabidopsis thaliana accessions

YP Lee, A Babakov, B de Boer, E Zuther, DK Hincha - BMC Plant Biology, 2012 - Springer
Background Thellungiella has been proposed as an extremophile alternative to Arabidopsis
to investigate environmental stress tolerance. However, Arabidopsis accessions show large …

Phospholipases C and D Modulate Proline Accumulation in Thellungiella halophila/salsuginea Differently According to the Severity of Salt or Hyperosmotic Stress

MA Ghars, L Richard, D Lefebvre-De Vos… - Plant and Cell …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Proline accumulation is one of the most common responses of plants to environmental
constraints. Thellungiella halophila/salsuginea, a model halophyte, accumulates high levels …

A Study of Proline Metabolism in Canola (Brassica napus L.) Seedlings under Salt Stress

M Saadia, A Jamil, NA Akram, M Ashraf - Molecules, 2012 - mdpi.com
Expression analysis of crop plants has improved our knowledge about the veiled underlying
mechanisms for salt tolerance. In order to observe the time course effects of salinity stress on …

GsAPK, an ABA-Activated and Calcium-Independent SnRK2-Type Kinase from G. soja, Mediates the Regulation of Plant Tolerance to Salinity and ABA Stress

L Yang, W Ji, P Gao, Y Li, H Cai, X Bai, Q Chen… - PLoS One, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Plant Snf1 (sucrose non-fermenting-1) related protein kinase (SnRK), a subfamily of
serine/threonine kinases, has been implicated as a crucial upstream regulator of ABA and …

Transcriptomic and metabolomic analysis of Yukon Thellungiella plants grown in cabinets and their natural habitat show phenotypic plasticity

DR Guevara, MJ Champigny, A Tattersall, J Dedrick… - BMC plant biology, 2012 - Springer
Background Thellungiella salsuginea is an important model plant due to its natural tolerance
to abiotic stresses including salt, cold, and water deficits. Microarray and metabolite profiling …