Chilling and drought stresses in crop plants: implications, cross talk, and potential management opportunities

HA Hussain, S Hussain, A Khaliq, U Ashraf… - Frontiers in plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Plants face a combination of different abiotic stresses under field conditions which are lethal
to plant growth and production. Simultaneous occurrence of chilling and drought stresses in …

Cell wall metabolism in response to abiotic stress

HL Gall, F Philippe, JM Domon, F Gillet, J Pelloux… - Plants, 2015 - mdpi.com
This review focuses on the responses of the plant cell wall to several abiotic stresses
including drought, flooding, heat, cold, salt, heavy metals, light, and air pollutants. The …

General mechanisms of drought response and their application in drought resistance improvement in plants

Y Fang, L Xiong - Cellular and molecular life sciences, 2015 - Springer
Plants often encounter unfavorable environmental conditions because of their sessile
lifestyle. These adverse factors greatly affect the geographic distribution of plants, as well as …

Global identification of Arabidopsis lncRNAs reveals the regulation of MAF4 by a natural antisense RNA

X Zhao, J Li, B Lian, H Gu, Y Li, Y Qi - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged as important regulators of gene
expression and plant development. Here, we identified 6,510 lncRNAs in Arabidopsis under …

Mutational evidence for the critical role of CBF transcription factors in cold acclimation in Arabidopsis

C Zhao, Z Zhang, S Xie, T Si, Y Li, JK Zhu - Plant physiology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The three tandemly arranged CBF genes, CBF1, CBF2, and CBF3, are involved in cold
acclimation. Due to the lack of stable loss-of-function Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) …

Dynamic changes in the starch-sugar interconversion within plant source and sink tissues promote a better abiotic stress response

S Dong, DM Beckles - Journal of plant physiology, 2019 - Elsevier
Starch is a significant store of sugars, and the starch-sugar interconversion in source and
sink tissues plays a profound physiological role in all plants. In this review, we discuss how …

Mechanisms of plant response to salt and drought stress and their alteration by rhizobacteria

C Forni, D Duca, BR Glick - Plant and Soil, 2017 - Springer
Background Soil salinity and drought are an enormous worldwide problem for agriculture,
horticulture and silviculture. The initial responses of plants to drought and salinity are similar; …

Tolerance to drought and salt stress in plants: unraveling the signaling networks

D Golldack, C Li, H Mohan, N Probst - Frontiers in plant science, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Tolerance of plants to abiotic stressors such as drought and salinity is triggered by complex
multicomponent signaling pathways to restore cellular homeostasis and promote survival …

The plant cell wall: a complex and dynamic structure as revealed by the responses of genes under stress conditions

K Houston, MR Tucker, J Chowdhury… - Frontiers in plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The plant cell wall has a diversity of functions. It provides a structural framework to support
plant growth and acts as the first line of defense when the plant encounters pathogens. The …

Synthesis versus degradation: directions of amino acid metabolism during Arabidopsis abiotic stress response

TM Hildebrandt - Plant molecular biology, 2018 - Springer
Key message During abiotic stress low abundant amino acids are not synthesized but they
accumulate due to increased protein turnover under conditions inducing carbohydrate …