The phytohormones ethylene and abscisic acid (ABA) play essential roles in the abiotic stress adaptation of plants, with both cross-talk of ethylene signalling and ABA biosynthesis and signalling reported. Any reciprocal effects on each other's biosynthesis, however, remain elusive. ACC synthase (ACS) acts as the key enzyme in ethylene biosynthesis. A pilot study on changes in ACS promoter acti...

drought and salinity stress are adverse environmental factors that affect crop growth and yield. abiotic stress cause some reaction in plants such as change in gene expression, cell metabolism, growth and yield. moreover, stress condition resulted in increase of reactive oxygen species and disturbe macromolecules such as proteins, fatty acids, nucleic acid and pigments. in order to evaluate sal...

Throughout plant evolution the circadian clock has expanded into a complex signaling network, coordinating physiological and metabolic processes with environment. Early land plants faced new environmental pressures that required energy-demanding stress responses. Integrating abiotic response system provides control over daily energy expenditure. Here, we describe of in limited, yet compelling, ...

The microRNAs (miRNAs) are small (20-24 nt) sized, non-coding, single stranded riboregulator RNAs abundant in higher organisms. Recent findings have established that plants assign miRNAs as critical post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression in sequence-specific manner to respond to numerous abiotic stresses they face during their growth cycle. These small RNAs regulate gene expression ...

Global warming is an alarming problem in agriculture and its effect on yield loss has been estimated to be five per cent for every degree centigrade rise in temperature. Plants exhibit multiple mechanisms like optimizing signaling pathway, involvement of secondary messengers, production of biomolecules specifically in response to stress, modulation of various metabolic networks in accordance wi...

The perception of abiotic stress triggers the activation of signal transduction cascades that interact with the baseline pathways transduced by phytohormones. The convergence points among hormone signal transduction cascades are considered cross-talk, and together they form a signaling network. Through this mechanism, hormones interact by activating either a common second messenger or a phospho...

Abiotic stress such as cold, drought, salt, and heavy metals largely influences plant development and crop productivity. Abiotic stress has been becoming a major threat to food security due to the constant changes of climate and deterioration of environment caused by human activity. To cope with abiotic stress, plants can initiate a number of molecular, cellular , and physiological changes to r...

Living on the same planet, plants means a lot to us. No matter being taken, as our food or treated with great commercial significance, plants are so indispensable that we have to learn how to protect, make use of, and most important of all, get on well with them. In the first place, what we all understand is: plants are distinguished from us or other animals by being unable to escape from the s...