Soil salinity is a major abiotic stress in plant agriculture worldwide. This has led to research into salt tolerance with the aim of improving crop plants. However, salt tolerance might have much wider implications because transgenic salt-tolerant plants often also tolerate other stresses including chilling, freezing, heat and drought. Unfortunately, suitable genetic model systems have been har...

Many insects, including Drosophila, succumb to the physiological effects of chilling at temperatures well above those causing freezing. Low temperature causes a loss of extracellular ion and water homeostasis in such insects, and chill injuries accumulate. Using an integrative and comparative approach, we examined the role of ion and water balance in insect chilling susceptibility/ tolerance. T...

Squamosa promoter-binding protein-like (SPL) is a major family of plant-specific transcription factor, which involved in multiple biological processes, such as plant growth and development, hormone response, light response stress response. Therefore, it has been profoundly significant to systematically analyze the SPL Transcription Factors Brassica oleracea. In this study, total 33 BoSPLs were ...

Banana is a tropical crop cultivated in warm places. Chilling stress Egypt making banana crops less productive. Abscisic acid (ABA), key plant hormone, regulates metabolic and physiological processes protects plants from variety of stresses. In vitro growing shoots were pre-treated with ABA at four concentrations (0, 25, 50, 100 mM) chilled 5°C for 24 h, followed by six-day recovery period 25°C...

Cold acclimation in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) plays a crucial role in cold tolerance to harsh winters. To examine the cold acclimation mechanisms in freezing-tolerant alfalfa (ZD) and freezing-sensitive alfalfa (W5), holoproteins, and low-abundance proteins (after the removal of RuBisCO) from leaves were extracted to analyze differences at the protein level. A total of 84 spots were selected...