Understanding plant responses to drought—from genes to the whole plant

MM Chaves, JP Maroco, JS Pereira - Functional plant biology, 2003 - CSIRO Publishing
In the last decade, our understanding of the processes underlying plant response to drought,
at the molecular and whole-plant levels, has rapidly progressed. Here, we review that …

Cell signaling during cold, drought, and salt stress

L Xiong, KS Schumaker, JK Zhu - The plant cell, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Low temperature, drought, and high salinity are common stress conditions that adversely
affect plant growth and crop production. The cellular and molecular responses of plants to …

Plant salt stress: adaptive responses, tolerance mechanism and bioengineering for salt tolerance

NS Muchate, GC Nikalje, NS Rajurkar… - The Botanical …, 2016 - Springer
Salinity is an important abiotic environmental stress factor threatening agricultural
productivity throughout the world. The detrimental effects of salinity stress are observed at …

Regulation of ion homeostasis under salt stress

JK Zhu - Current opinion in plant biology, 2003 - Elsevier
When under salt stress, plants maintain a high concentration of K+ and a low concentration
of Na+ in the cytosol. They do this by regulating the expression and activity of K+ and Na+ …

Understanding and improving salt tolerance in plants

V Chinnusamy, A Jagendorf, JK Zhu - Crop science, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
One‐fifth of irrigated agriculture is adversely affected by soil salinity. Hence, developing salt‐
tolerant crops is essential for sustaining food production. Progress in breeding for salt …

ABA control of plant macroelement membrane transport systems in response to water deficit and high salinity

Y Osakabe, K Yamaguchi‐Shinozaki… - New …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Plant growth and productivity are adversely affected by various abiotic stressors and plants
develop a wide range of adaptive mechanisms to cope with these adverse conditions …

Sodium transport in plants: a critical review

HJ Kronzucker, DT Britto - New Phytologist, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Sodium (Na) toxicity is one of the most formidable challenges for crop production world‐
wide. Nevertheless, despite decades of intensive research, the pathways of Na+ entry into …

Molecular Mechanisms and Regulation of K+ Transport in Higher Plants

AA Véry, H Sentenac - Annual review of plant biology, 2003 - annualreviews.org
Potassium (K+) plays a number of important roles in plant growth and development. Over the
past few years, molecular approaches associated with electrophysiological analyses have …

Enhanced salt tolerance mediated by AtHKT1 transporter‐induced Na+ unloading from xylem vessels to xylem parenchyma cells

xxx Sunarpi, T Horie, J Motoda, M Kubo… - The Plant …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
AtHKT1 is a sodium (Na+) transporter that functions in mediating tolerance to salt stress. To
investigate the membrane targeting of AtHKT1 and its expression at the translational level …

The twins K+ and Na+ in plants

B Benito, R Haro, A Amtmann, TA Cuin… - Journal of plant …, 2014 - Elsevier
In the earth's crust and in seawater, K+ and Na+ are by far the most available monovalent
inorganic cations. Physico-chemically, K+ and Na+ are very similar, but K+ is widely used by …