Abiotic stress responses in plant roots: a proteomics perspective

D Ghosh, J Xu - Frontiers in plant science, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Abiotic stress conditions adversely affect plant growth, resulting in significant decline in crop
productivity. To mitigate and recover from the damaging effects of such adverse …

An update on source-to-sink carbon partitioning in tomato

S Osorio, YL Ruan, AR Fernie - Frontiers in plant science, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Plant growth and carbon metabolism are closely associated since carbohydrate in the form
of sucrose generated by photosynthesis, provides the primary source of building blocks and …

Glutathione transferase supergene family in tomato: salt stress-regulated expression of representative genes from distinct GST classes in plants primed with salicylic …

J Csiszár, E Horváth, Z Váry, Á Gallé, K Bela… - Plant Physiology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
A family tree of the multifunctional proteins, glutathione transferases (GSTs, EC 2.5. 1.18)
was created in Solanum lycopersicum based on homology to known Arabidopsis GSTs. The …

Elicitation: an underutilized tool in the development of medicinal plants as a source of therapeutic secondary metabolites

J Gorelick, N Bernstein - Advances in agronomy, 2014 - Elsevier
Although there is a plethora of traditional plants with great therapeutic potential, the majority
of medicinal plants have yet to be utilized on a large scale. One of the main reasons for this …

Plant responses to limited moisture and phosphorus availability: a meta-analysis

LDB Suriyagoda, MH Ryan, M Renton, H Lambers - advances in agronomy, 2014 - Elsevier
Phosphorus (P) is a scarce, nonrenewable resource; its acquisition by plants decreases
when soil moisture declines, as anticipated under future climate-change scenarios. It is …

[HTML][HTML] Simultaneous application of salicylic acid and calcium improves salt tolerance in two contrasting tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) cultivars

A Manaa, E Gharbi, H Mimouni, S Wasti… - South African Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Soil salinity is one of the most important environmental factors responsible for serious
agricultural problems. Tomato salt tolerance may be improved by genetic selection and by …

Identification of NaCl and NaHCO3 stress responsive proteins in tomato roots using iTRAQ-based analysis

B Gong, C Zhang, X Li, D Wen, S Wang, Q Shi… - Biochemical and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Soil salinity and alkalinity are common constraints to crop productivity in low rainfall regions
of the world. However, the physiological difference of plant response to these two stresses …

Transcriptomic Analysis of Petunia hybrida in Response to Salt Stress Using High Throughput RNA Sequencing

GH Villarino, A Bombarely, JJ Giovannoni, MJ Scanlon… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Salinity and drought stress are the primary cause of crop losses worldwide. In sodic saline
soils sodium chloride (NaCl) disrupts normal plant growth and development. The complex …

Salinity stress in roots of contrasting barley genotypes reveals time-distinct and genotype-specific patterns for defined proteins

K Witzel, A Matros, M Strickert, S Kaspar, M Peukert… - Molecular plant, 2014 - cell.com
Soil salinity is one of the most severe abiotic stress factors threatening agriculture
worldwide. Hence, particular interest exists in unraveling mechanisms leading to salt …

Role of Na+, K+, Cl, proline and sucrose concentrations in determining salinity tolerance and their correlation with the expression of multiple genes in tomato

P Almeida, R Feron, GJ de Boer, AH de Boer - AoB Plants, 2014 - academic.oup.com
One of the major abiotic stresses affecting agriculture is soil salinity, which reduces crop
yield and, consequently, revenue for farmers. Although tomato is an important agricultural …