Drought and salinity are among the most important environmental factors that hampered
agricultural productivity worldwide. Both stresses can induce several morphological …

Contents Summary 943 I. Introduction 943 II. Multiple functions of starch metabolism 944 III.
Starch metabolism during abiotic stress 945 IV. Enzymes involved in stress‐induced …

Sucrose is the main photosynthetic product in plants, and acts as a major energy substrate
and signaling regulator of plant growth. Furthermore, sucrose is involved in the responses to …

Starch is a significant store of sugars, and the starch-sugar interconversion in source and
sink tissues plays a profound physiological role in all plants. In this review, we discuss how …

Source-to-sink transport of sugar is one of the major determinants of plant growth and relies
on the efficient and controlled distribution of sucrose (and some other sugars such as …

To understand the underlying mechanism for plasticity in root to shoot ratio (R/S) in
response to drought stress, two rice cultivars, Zhenshan97 (drought susceptible) and …

Starch serves functions that range over a timescale of minutes to years, according to the cell
type from which it is derived. In guard cells, starch is rapidly mobilized by the synergistic …

Many plants accumulate organic osmolytes in response to the imposition of environmental
stresses that cause cellular dehydration. Although an adaptive role for these compounds in …

Photosynthesis is the vital metabolism of the plant affected by abiotic stress such as high
temperature and elevated [CO2] levels, which ultimately affect the source-sink relationship …

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 …