Sara I. Zandalinas

TL;DR: The need for developing crops with enhanced tolerance to drought and heat stress combination in order to mitigate the negative impacts of predicted global climatic changes on agricultural production worldwide is emphasized.

TL;DR: GoldenBraid (GB), a standardized assembly system based on type IIS restriction enzymes that allows the indefinite growth of reusable gene modules made of standardized DNA pieces, is presented and the use of GoldenBraid as an assembly standard for Plant Synthetic Biology is proposed.

TL;DR: Arabidopsis plants were found to be more susceptible to a combination of salt and heat stress compared to each of the different stresses applied individually, and mutants deficient in abscisic acid metabolism and signaling were more susceptible than wild type plants.

TL;DR: For example, this article found that increasing the number of different co-occurring multifactorial stress factors causes a severe decline in plant growth and survival, as well as in the microbiome biodiversity that plants depend upon.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors discuss promising developments and how they might be used to increase plant resilience to environmental stress, including the identification of ROS receptors and key regulatory hubs that connect ROS signalling with other important stress-response signal transduction pathways and hormones, as well as new roles for ROS in organelle-to-organelle and cell-tocell signalling.