Despite a wealth of published research on salinity tolerance of plants, neither the metabolic
sites at which salt stress damages plants nor the adaptive mechanisms utilized by plants to …

The ability to adapt to altered availability of free water is a fundamental property of living
cells. The principles underlying osmoadaptation are well conserved. The yeast …

We explored genomic expression patterns in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
responding to diverse environmental transitions. DNA microarrays were used to measure …

During ethanol fermentation, yeast cells encounter various stresses including sugar
substrates-induced high osmolarity, increased ethanol concentration, oxygen metabolism …

During brewery handling, production strains of yeast must respond to fluctuations in
dissolved oxygen concentration, pH, osmolarity, ethanol concentration, nutrient supply and …

Background The compatible solute trehalose is a non-reducing disaccharide, which
accumulates upon heat, cold or osmotic stress. It was commonly accepted that trehalose is …

Cells coordinate intracellular activities in response to changes in the extracellular
environment to maximize their probability of survival and proliferation. Eukaryotic cells need …

Trehalose, the non-reducing disaccharide of glucose, is the principal sugar circulating in the
blood or haemolymph of most insects. Resistance to acid hydrolysis and an absence of …

The disaccharide trehalose is widely distributed in nature and can be found in many
organisms, including bacteria, fungi, plants, invertebrates and mammals. Due to its particular …

This essay is an introduction to a series of papers arising from a symposium on stabilization
of cells in the dry state. Nearly all of these investigations have utilized the sugar trehalose as …