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Recent advances in engineering plant tolerance to abiotic stress: achievements and limitations.

Basia Vinocur, +1 more
- 01 Apr 2005 - 
- Vol. 16, Iss: 2, pp 123-132
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Unraveling additional stress-associated gene resources, from both crop plants and highly salt- and drought-tolerant model plants, will enable future molecular dissection of salt-tolerance mechanisms in important crop plants.
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This article is published in Current Opinion in Biotechnology.The article was published on 2005-04-01. It has received 1443 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biotic stress & Abiotic stress.

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Drought-induced changes in photosynthetic electron transport in maize probed by prompt fluorescence, delayed fluorescence, P700 and cyclic electron flow signals

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of drought on the prompt chlorophyll a fluorescence (PF) transient (OJIP) was investigated in two maize hybrids with contrasting drought tolerance, and the relevance of the CEF pathway to the drought tolerance of maize plants was investigated.
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Heat Shock Proteins and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants

TL;DR: Unraveling the mechanisms of plant response against various stress and the role of HSP in acquired stress tolerance is utmost important to delineate their specific function as a part of stress-responsive module.
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Understanding the complex nature of salinity and drought-stress response in cereals using proteomics technologies.

TL;DR: The usefulness of sorghum as the next logical model crop for use in understanding drought and salinity tolerance in cereals is highlighted and a call for integrated efforts across the agricultural, biotechnology, and molecular biology sectors is highlighted to translate proteomics data into increased food productivity for the world's growing population.
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Functional characterization of three water deficit stress-induced genes in tobacco and Arabidopsis: An approach based on gene down regulation

TL;DR: Using post transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) based RNAi approach, a few selected gene homologs have been characterized in Nicotiana tabacum and Arabidopsis, validating relevance of these three genes under abiotic stresses.
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Oxidative stress, antioxidants and stress tolerance

TL;DR: Key steps of the signal transduction pathway that senses ROIs in plants have been identified and raise several intriguing questions about the relationships between ROI signaling, ROI stress and the production and scavenging ofROIs in the different cellular compartments.
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Plant responses to drought, salinity and extreme temperatures: towards genetic engineering for stress tolerance

TL;DR: The present review summarizes the recent advances in elucidating stress-response mechanisms and their biotechnological applications and examines the following aspects: regulatory controls, metabolite engineering, ion transport, antioxidants and detoxification, late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) and heat-shock proteins.
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Role of plant heat-shock proteins and molecular chaperones in the abiotic stress response

TL;DR: The significance of Hsps and chaperones in abiotic stress responses in plants is summarized, and the co-operation among their different classes and their interactions with other stress-induced components are discussed.
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Improving crop salt tolerance

TL;DR: Evaluation of claims in the literature that the transfer of a single or a few genes can increase the tolerance of plants to saline conditions reveals that, of the 68 papers produced between 1993 and early 2003, only 19 report quantitative estimates of plant growth.
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Regulatory network of gene expression in the drought and cold stress responses.

TL;DR: This work has shown that several genes with various functions are induced by drought and cold stresses, and that various transcription factors are involved in the regulation of stress-inducible genes.
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