Abstract
Plants respond and adapt to a variety of environmental stresses including drought, cold and high salinity to survive in severe stress conditions. These stresses induce various physiological and biochemical responses in plants. Moreover, a variety of genes have been described that respond to these stresses at transcriptional level (Shinozaki and Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, 1997, 2000). Their gene products are thought to function in stress tolerance and response. Many stress-inducible genes have been used to improve stress tolerance of plants by gene transfer. It is important to analyze functions of stress-inducible genes not only for further understanding of molecular mechanisms of stress tolerance and response of higher plants but also for improvement of stress tolerance of crops by gene manipulation.
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Shinozaki, K., Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, K. (2003). Molecular Mechanisms of Plant Responses and Tolerance of Drought and Cold Stress. In: Vasil, I.K. (eds) Plant Biotechnology 2002 and Beyond. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2679-5_6
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