Abscisic acid and abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants

Frontiers in Plant Science

Jiaxu eLi¹  Saroj Kumar Sah¹  Kambhan Raja Reddy¹ 

[1] Mississippi State University;

关键词: Abscisic Acid;    Gene Expression;    abiotic stress;    ABA signaling;    phytohormone;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpls.2016.00571

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Abiotic stress is a primary threat to fulfill the demand of agricultural production to feed the world in coming decades. Plants reduce growth and development process during stress conditions, which ultimately affect the yield. In stress conditions, plants develop various stress mechanism to face the magnitude of stress challenges, although that is not enough to protect them. Therefore, many strategies have been used to produce abiotic stress tolerance crop plants, among them, ABA (abscisic acid) phytohormone engineering could be one of the methods of choice. ABA is an isoprenoid phytohormone, which regulates various physiological processes ranging from stomatal opening to protein storage and provides adaptation to many stresses like drought, salt, and cold stresses. ABA is also called an important messenger that acts as the signaling mediator for regulating the adaptive response of plants to different environmental stress conditions. In this review, we will discuss the role of ABA in response to abiotic stress at the molecular level and ABA signaling. The review also deals with the effect of ABA in respect to gene expression.

【 授权许可】

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