Plants are often subjected to unfavorable environmental conditions – abiotic factors, causing abiotic stresses that play a major role in determining productivity of crop yields [1] but also the differential distribution of the plants species across different types of environment [2]. Some examples of abiotic stresses that a plant may face include decreased water availability, extreme temperatures (heating or freezing), decreased availability of soil nutrients and/or excess of toxic ions, excess of light and increased hardness of drying soil that hamper roots growth [3]. The ability of plants to adapt and/or acclimate to different environments is directly or indirectly related with the plasticity and resilience of photosynthesis, in combination with other processes, determining plant growth and development, namely reproduction [4]. A remarkable feature of plant adaptation to abiotic stresses is the activation of multiple responses involving complex gene interactions and crosstalk with many molecular pathways [5, 6].
Abiotic Stress Responses in Plants: Unraveling the Complexity of Genes and Networks to Survive
A. S. Duque,A. Almeida,A. Silva,J. Silva,A. Farinha,D. Santos,P. Fevereiro,S. Araújo
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2013-03-13
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