Seed germination is an important growth phase in the plant life cycle that can be injured by osmotic stress. Germination is divided into three phases and many processes are initiated before radical protrusion. Many metabolic activities occur, especially in Sensu stricto germination phase since the seed embryo is a live organ, so differences in protein patterns are important in this phase. This ...

Wheat is one of the most important crops in the world, and osmotic stress has become one of the main factors affecting wheat production. Understanding the mechanism of the response of wheat to osmotic stress would be greatly significant. In the present study, isobaric tag for relative and absolute quantification (iTRAQ) was used to analyze the changes of protein expression in the wheat roots ex...

Proline concentration has been often suggested as an indicator of osmotic stress. A better understanding of the genetics of this trait is however needed. In the present study, proline concentration has been assessed, together with root and stem growth, potassium, calcium and total soluble sugars concentration and stress injury symptoms, in seedlings of sunflower hybrids and their parents grown ...

The heterotrimeric kinase AMPK acts as an energy sensor to coordinate cell metabolism with environmental status in species from yeast through humans. Low intracellular ATP leads to AMPK activation through phosphorylation of the activation loop within the catalytic subunit. Other environmental stresses also activate AMPK, but it is unclear whether cellular energy status affects AMPK activation u...

Osmotic stress activates the biosynthesis of the phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) through a pathway that is rate limited by the carotenoid cleavage enzyme 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase (NCED). To understand the signal transduction mechanism underlying the activation of ABA biosynthesis, we performed a forward genetic screen to isolate mutants defective in osmotic stress regulation of the NC...

Qualitative modeling approaches allow to provide a coarse-grained description of the functioning of cellular networks when experimental data are scarce and heterogeneous. We translate the primary literature data on the response of Escherichia coli to hyperosmotic stress caused by NaCl addition into a piecewise linear (PL) model. We provide a data file of the qualitative model, which can be used...

Under high salt conditions, plant growth is severely inhibited due to both osmotic and ionic stresses. In an effort to dissect genes and pathways that respond to changes in osmotic potential under salt stress, the expression patterns were compared of 460 non-redundant salt-responsive genes in barley during the initial phase under osmotic versus salt stress using cDNA microarrays with northern b...

in order to genetic analysis of rice seed vigour, a cross was carried out between tarom mahalli (tolerant to osmotic stress) and khazar (sensitive to osmotic stress) crosses. linkage map based on ssr markers was derived using 74 polymorphic markers and 192 f2 individuals. germination rate, radicale and plumule length were recorded from 20 plants per 192 f3 families. the loci related to germinat...