International Journal of Molecular Sciences | |
Physiological, Biochemical, and Molecular Mechanisms of Heat Stress Tolerance in Plants | |
Mirza Hasanuzzaman2  Kamrun Nahar3  Md. Mahabub Alam3  Rajib Roychowdhury1  | |
[1] Department of Biotechnology, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan 731235, West Bengal, India; E-Mail:;Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh;Laboratory of Plant Stress Responses, Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Miki-cho, Kita-gun, Kagawa 761-0795, Japan; E-Mails: | |
关键词: abiotic stress; antioxidant defense; climate change; high temperature; heat shock proteins; oxidative stress; plant omics; stress signaling; | |
DOI : 10.3390/ijms14059643 | |
来源: mdpi | |
【 摘 要 】
High temperature (HT) stress is a major environmental stress that limits plant growth, metabolism, and productivity worldwide. Plant growth and development involve numerous biochemical reactions that are sensitive to temperature. Plant responses to HT vary with the degree and duration of HT and the plant type. HT is now a major concern for crop production and approaches for sustaining high yields of crop plants under HT stress are important agricultural goals. Plants possess a number of adaptive, avoidance, or acclimation mechanisms to cope with HT situations. In addition, major tolerance mechanisms that employ ion transporters, proteins, osmoprotectants, antioxidants, and other factors involved in signaling cascades and transcriptional control are activated to offset stress-induced biochemical and physiological alterations. Plant survival under HT stress depends on the ability to perceive the HT stimulus, generate and transmit the signal, and initiate appropriate physiological and biochemical changes. HT-induced gene expression and metabolite synthesis also substantially improve tolerance. The physiological and biochemical responses to heat stress are active research areas, and the molecular approaches are being adopted for developing HT tolerance in plants. This article reviews the recent findings on responses, adaptation, and tolerance to HT at the cellular, organellar, and whole plant levels and describes various approaches being taken to enhance thermotolerance in plants.
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