Heat stress events are major factors limiting crop productivity. During summer days, land
plants must anticipate in a timely manner upcoming mild and severe temperature. They …

Small heat shock proteins are a diverse, ancient, and important family of proteins. All
organisms possess small heat shock proteins (sHSPs), indicating that these proteins …

Real-time RT-PCR is a powerful technique for the measurement of gene expression, but its
accuracy depends on the stability of the internal reference gene (s) used for data …

Pollen germination, along with pollen tube growth, is an essential process for the
reproduction of flowering plants. The germinating pollen with tip-growth characteristics …

Research on plant responses to temperature stress is receiving increased interest due to the
growing awareness about global warming. High and low temperature stresses help …

Above-optimal temperatures reduce yield in tomato largely because of the high heat stress
(HS) sensitivity of the developing pollen grains. The high temperature response, especially …

Compared with small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) in other organisms, those in plants are
the most abundant and diverse. However, the molecular mechanisms by which sHSPs are …

Sexual reproduction in flowering plants is very sensitive to environmental stresses,
particularly to thermal insults which frequently occur when plants grow in field conditions in …

Key message Pollen heat acclimation. Abstract As a consequence of global warming, plants
have to face more severe and more frequently occurring periods of high temperature stress …

Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) have been thought to function as chaperones, protecting
their targets from denaturation and aggregation when organisms are subjected to various …