Abscisic acid (ABA) is a vital hormone that confers abiotic stress tolerance in plants. The identification of PYR/PYL/RCAR proteins as bona fide ABA recep‐ tors and the subsequent elucidation of the structural mechanisms of the core ABA signalling pathway in recent years has provided new and powerful in‐ sights in targeting ABA signalling to enhance abiotic stress tolerance in agri‐ culture. Th...

Abscisic acid (ABA) is an essential hormone that controls plant growth, development and responses to abiotic stresses. ABA signaling is mediated by type 2C protein phosphatases (PP2Cs), including HAB1 and ABI2, which inhibit stress-activated SnRK2 kinases and whose activity is regulated by ABA and ABA receptors. Based on biochemical data and our previously determined crystal structures of ABI2 ...

Cycloheximide was shown to block abscisic acid (ABA) biosynthesis in nonstressed as well as in stressed Phaseolus vulgaris leaves. Leaf wilting caused by cycloheximide resulted from increased stomatal opening as judged by a decreased stomatal diffusion resistance. The inhibition of ABA biosynthesis by cycloheximide was at least partially responsible for the increase in stomatal opening as sugge...

Seed germination is a key developmental transition that initiates the plant life cycle. The timing of germination is determined by the coordinated action of two phytohormones, gibberellin and abscisic acid (ABA). In particular, ABA plays a key role in integrating environmental information and inhibiting the germination process. The utilization of embryonic lipid reserves contributes to seed ger...

Key steps in a plant's development and adaptation to the environment are the initiation and development of lateral roots (LRs). LR development is regulated by auxin, the major plant hormone promoting LR formation, its counteracting hormones cytokinin, and abscisic acid (ABA). Here, we show that mutating ABSCISIC ACID INSENSITIVE4 (ABI4), which encodes an ABA-regulated AP2 domain transcription f...

to clarify the underlying physiological mechanism of gibberellic acid (ga) in cold tolerance, the effects of exogenous ga3 on malondialdehyde (mda), osmoregulation substances and endogenous hormones levels in the tiller nodes of two wheat cultivars, namely, dongnongdongmai 1 (a cold insensitive cultivar) and jimai 22 (a cold sensitive cultivar), were investigated at three periods of cold winter...

Abscisic acid (ABA) is postulated to be a ubiquitous hormone that plays a central role in seed development and responses to environmental stresses of vascular plants. However, in liverworts (Marchantiophyta), which represent the oldest extant lineage of land plants, the role of ABA has been least emphasized; thus, very little information is available on the molecular mechanisms underlying ABA r...

A simple procedure was developed for the partial purification of plant tissue samples to be analyzed simultaneously for indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) and abscisic acid (ABA). The procedure relies on removal of contaminants by filtration through nylon and partitioning into dichloromethane. This procedure successfully purified both IAA and ABA from muskmelon, cotton, and broccoli tissue. Twenty indi...

We analysed effects of abscisic acid (ABA, a negative regulatory hormone), alone and in combination with positive or neutral hormones, including salicylic acid (SA), on rice growth and expression of cell cycle-related genes. ABA significantly inhibited shoot growth and induced expression of OsKRP4, OsKRP5, and OsKRP6. A yeast two-hybrid assay showed that OsKRP4, OsKRP5, and OsKRP6 interacted wi...

The accumulation of abscisic acid (ABA) is considered a crucial signal for the onset berry maturation in grape berry, including ‘Kyoho’ (Vitis labruscana L.). Therefore, delay maturation, especially peel coloration, by applying an ABA inhibitor (nordihydroguaiaretic acid, NDGA) to clusters has been investigated various studies. Herein, we report first time that NDGA treatment on leaves inhibite...