Table 4 Dehydrin, a biochemical marker in plants' adaptive response to various abiotic stress

Drought

Glycine max L. Merr

SDS PAGE and Western blot

Family: SK3 (DHN 1)

LOC100816147

Accumulation of dehydrin proteins increases the resilience of the drought-tolerant cultivar by facilitating membrane stability, ion flow, and water retention

Arumingtyas and Savitri (2013)

Cold, drought and salinity

Triticum aestivum L.

RNA-seq

Family: SK3 (DHN7)

LOCUS: AF7085145

Overexpression of the SK3-type dehydrin gene (TaDHN7) improves stress tolerance by stabilizing cellular structures and macromolecules

Hao et al. (2022)

Drought

Coix lacryma-jobi L.

RNA-seq and qRT-PCR

Family: DHN1

LOC100816147

Upregulation of the dehydrin gene improves tolerance by mitigating oxidative damage

Miao et al. (2021)

Drought

Cucumis melo L.

Western blot

Not specified

Accumulation of dehydrin proteins during water stress prevents the denaturing of macromolecules and maintains turgor pressure

Motallebi-Azar et al. (2019)

Salinity

Hordeum vulgare L.

SDS-PAGE and Immunoblot assay

Family: K (DHN 5)

LOCUS: AAD02262

Accumulation of dehydrin protein confers tolerance via its radical scavenging, cryoprotective, ion binding, and chaperone function in the cell

Kosová et al. (2015)

Cold and drought

Solanum sogarandinum L.

Western blot

Family: SK3 (DHN24)

LOCUS: AAP44575

The accumulation of DHN 24 in the roots, stems, and leaves stabilizes macromolecules by facilitating the formation of intermolecular hydrogen bonds, hence increasing stress tolerance

Szabala et al. (2014)

Salinity

Triticum aestivum L.

LC–MS

Not specified

Increased expression of dehydrin proteins improves adaptation to salt stress by efficiently regulating ion balance, osmotic pressure, oxidative stress, and protein damage

Khan et al. (2023)