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 …

HIGHLIGHTS: Major environmental and genetic factors determining stress-related protein
abundance are discussed. Major aspects of protein biological function including protein …

Apart from water availability, low temperature is the most important environmental factor
limiting the productivity and geographical distribution of plants across the world. To cope …

Chloroplasts are the metabolically active, semi-autonomous organelles found in plants,
algae and cyanobacteria. Their main function is to carry out the photosynthesis process …

Exposure to low temperatures is one of the most important plant abiotic stress factors. In this
review we describe the damages that chilling and/or freezing temperatures can cause to …

Since the publication of the third edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress,
continuous discoveries in the fields of plant and crop environmental stresses and their …

Despite recent elucidation of the three-dimensional structure of major photosynthetic
complexes, our understanding of light energy conversion in plant chloroplasts and …

Plants possess inducible tolerance mechanisms that extend the temperature range for
survival during acute temperature stress. The inducible mechanisms of cold acclimation and …

Historically speaking, Arabidopsis was not the plant of choice for investigating
photosynthesis, with physiologists and biochemists favouring other species such as …

Monitoring molecular dynamics of an organism upon stress is probably the best approach to
decipher physiological mechanisms involved in the stress response. Quantitative analysis of …