Aquaporins in plants

C Maurel, Y Boursiac, DT Luu, V Santoni… - Physiological …, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
Aquaporins are membrane channels that facilitate the transport of water and small neutral
molecules across biological membranes of most living organisms. In plants, aquaporins …

Carbon dioxide and water transport through plant aquaporins

M Groszmann, HL Osborn… - Plant, Cell & Environment, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aquaporins are channel proteins that function to increase the permeability of biological
membranes. In plants, aquaporins are encoded by multigene families that have undergone …

Overexpression of the Wheat Aquaporin Gene, TaAQP7, Enhances Drought Tolerance in Transgenic Tobacco

S Zhou, W Hu, X Deng, Z Ma, L Chen, C Huang… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Aquaporin (AQP) proteins have been shown to transport water and other small molecules
through biological membranes, which is crucial for plants to combat stress caused by …

Overexpression of a Wheat Aquaporin Gene, TaAQP8, Enhances Salt Stress Tolerance in Transgenic Tobacco

W Hu, Q Yuan, Y Wang, R Cai, X Deng… - Plant and Cell …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Aquaporin (AQP) proteins have been shown to transport water and other small molecules
through biological membranes, which is crucial for plants to combat salt stress. However, the …

Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of aquaporins in tomato

S Reuscher, M Akiyama, C Mori, K Aoki, D Shibata… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The family of aquaporins, also called water channels or major intrinsic proteins, is
characterized by six transmembrane domains that together facilitate the transport of water …

Biochar and selenium nanoparticles induce water transporter genes for sustaining carbon assimilation and grain production in salt-stressed wheat

MH Soliman, GSH Alnusairi, AA Khan… - Journal of Plant Growth …, 2023 - Springer
In a controlled environment experiment, we studied how physiological changes in leaves
during the vegetative phase regulate final grain yield of wheat crops in salt-affected soils …

Identification of the family of aquaporin genes and their expression in upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutumL.)

W Park, BE Scheffler, PJ Bauer, BT Campbell - BMC plant biology, 2010 - Springer
Abstract Background Cotton (Gossypium spp.) is produced in over 30 countries and
represents the most important natural fiber in the world. One of the primary factors affecting …

Overexpressing a Putative Aquaporin Gene from Wheat, TaNIP, Enhances Salt Tolerance in Transgenic Arabidopsis

Z Gao, X He, B Zhao, C Zhou, Y Liang… - Plant and Cell …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
High soil salinity is a major abiotic stress in plant agriculture worldwide. Here, we report the
characterization of a novel aquaporin gene TaNIP (Triticum asetivum L. nodulin 26-like …

Roles of morphology, anatomy, and aquaporins in determining contrasting hydraulic behavior of roots

H Bramley, NC Turner, DW Turner… - Plant physiology, 2009 - academic.oup.com
The contrasting hydraulic properties of wheat (Triticum aestivum), narrow-leafed lupin
(Lupinus angustifolius), and yellow lupin (Lupinus luteus) roots were identified by integrating …

Identification and characterization of two plasma membrane aquaporins in durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. subsp. durum) and their role in abiotic stress tolerance

M Ayadi, D Cavez, N Miled, F Chaumont… - Plant Physiology and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Plant plasma membrane intrinsic proteins (PIP) cluster in two phylogenetic groups, PIP1 and
PIP2 that have different water channel activities when expressed in Xenopus oocytes. PIP2s …