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An insight into the drought stress induced alterations in plants

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Biologia Plantarum

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Plants are subjected to several abiotic stresses that adversely affect growth, metabolism and yield. The dynamic research in plant genetics complemented by genome sequencing has opened up avenues to address multiple problems caused by abiotic stresses. Though many drought-induced genes have been phytoengineered in a wide range of plants, the drought signal transduction pathways, and the alteration of plant sensing and signaling systems to adverse environments still remain an intriguing subject for comprehensive investigation. To impart enhanced drought tolerance in plants, a thorough perception of physiological, biochemical and gene regulatory networks is essential. Recent functional genomics tools have facilitated the progress in our understanding of stress signaling and of the linked molecular regulatory networks. This has revealed several stress-inducible genes and various transcription and signaling factors that regulate the drought stress-inducible systems. Translational genomics of these drought specific genes using model plants have provided encouraging outcomes, but the in-depth knowledge of the specific roles of various metabolites in plant stress tolerance will lead to evolvement of strategies for the phytoengineering of drought tolerance in plants in future.

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Abbreviations

ABA:

abscisic acid

ABF:

ABRE binding factor

ADC:

arginine decarboxylase

ALR:

aldose/aldehyde reductase

ATAF1,2:

Arabidopsis transcription factor1 or 2 like family

AVP1:

H+-pyrophosphatase

Chl:

chlorophyll

Chl-NADP-ME:

chlorophyll-targeting NADP-malic enzyme

COX:

choline oxidase

DREB2:

drought responsive element binding protein 2

E:

transpiration rate

ERF:

ethylene responsive factor

GolS:

galactinolsynthase

GR:

glutathionereductase

gs :

stomatal conductance

MT:

methyltransferase

mtlD:

mannitol-1-phosphate dehydrogenase

NCED:

9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase

OA:

osmotic adjustment

P5CS:

Δ1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate synthase

PEPC:

phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase

PN:

net photosynthetic rate

Rubisco:

ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase

RWC:

relative water content

TPP:

trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase

ψp :

pressure potential

ψs :

osmotic potential

ψw :

water potential

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GT and MD thanks Department of Biotechnology (Program Support) and University Grant Commission (UGC), Government of India respectively for fellowship. LS acknowledge funding from Department of Biotechnology, Government of India (Grant No. BT/01/NE/PS/08).

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Thapa, G., Dey, M., Sahoo, L. et al. An insight into the drought stress induced alterations in plants. Biol Plant 55, 603 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10535-011-0158-8

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