Stress signal transduction: Components, pathways and network integration

Liming Xiong*, Manabu Ishitani

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Drought, high soil salinity, and low temperature are common adverse environmental conditions that limit crop productivity worldwide. Plants respond to these abiotic stresses partly by activating the expression of stress-responsive genes. The products of some of these genes can increase plant tolerance to the stresses. Understanding how stress-responsive genes are activated by abiotic stress will help us to breed or engineer stress tolerant crop plants. Genetic and other studies are revealing components that are involved in the signal transduction forabiotic stresses. The pathways that lead to the activation of stress-responsive genes and the network that integrates these pathways are being discovered in model plant systems. This chapter discusses some recent progresses in the elucidation of abiotic stress signaling mechanisms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAbiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants
Subtitle of host publicationToward the Improvement of Global Environment and Food
EditorsAshwani K. Rai, Teruhiro Takabe
PublisherSpringer, Dordrecht
Pages3-29
Number of pages27
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9781402043895
ISBN (Print)1402043880, 9781402043888, 9789048171194
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Jan 2006

Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

User-Defined Keywords

  • Abiotic Stress
  • Salt Stress
  • Osmotic Stress
  • Abscisic Acid
  • Guard Cell

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