Abstract
Highly repetitive adverse environmental conditions are encountered by plants multiple times during their lifecycle. These repetitive encounters with stresses provide plants an opportunity to remember and recall the experiences of past stress-associated responses, resulting in better adaptation towards those stresses. In general, this phenomenon is known as plant stress memory. According to our current understanding, epigenetic mechanisms play a major role in plants stress memory through DNA methylation, histone, and chromatin remodeling, and modulating non-coding RNAs. In addition, transcriptional, hormonal, and metabolic-based regulations of stress memory establishment also exist for various biotic and abiotic stresses. Plant memory can also be generated by priming the plants using various stressors that improve plants’ tolerance towards unfavorable conditions. Additionally, the application of priming agents has been demonstrated to successfully establish stress memory. However, the interconnection of all aspects of the underlying mechanisms of plant stress memory is not yet fully understood, which limits their proper utilization to improve the stress adaptations in plants. This review summarizes the recent understanding of plant stress memory and its potential applications in improving plant tolerance towards biotic and abiotic stresses.
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Abbreviations
- AA:
-
Amino acids
- ABA:
-
Abscisic acid
- APX:
-
Ascorbate peroxidase
- BABA:
-
β-Aminobutyric acid
- bHLH:
-
Basic helix-loop-helix
- CAT:
-
Catalase
- CBF:
-
CCAAT motif-binding factor
- CDPK:
-
Calcium-dependent protein kinases
- DHAR:
-
Dehydroascorbate reductase
- DREB:
-
Dehydration responsive element binding
- FLC:
-
Flower locus C
- GPX:
-
Glutathione peroxidase
- GR:
-
Glutathione reductase
- GSH:
-
Glutathione
- HSF:
-
Heat shock factor
- HSP:
-
Heat shock protein
- ISM:
-
Intergenerational stress memory
- MAPK:
-
Mitogen activated protein kinase
- miRNAs:
-
MicroRNAs
- ncRNAs:
-
Non-coding RNAs
- PEG:
-
Polyethylene glycol
- PR:
-
Pathogenesis related protein
- PSM:
-
Plant stress memory
- SA:
-
Salicylic acid
- PP2C:
-
Plant protein phosphatase 2C
- siRNAs:
-
Small interfering RNAs
- SOD:
-
Superoxide dismutase
- SSM:
-
Somatic stress memory
- TFs:
-
Transcription factors
- TSM:
-
Transgenerational stress memory
- UV:
-
Ultraviolet
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Siddique, A.B., Parveen, S., Rahman, M.Z. et al. Revisiting plant stress memory: mechanisms and contribution to stress adaptation. Physiol Mol Biol Plants 30, 349–367 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12298-024-01422-z
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