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Abiotic stress is an important factor affecting the agricultural productivity as well as human health. We have assessed the statistical significance of the difference between the maximum computational capacity of the proteins associated with abiotic stress (heat drought and salinity stress) and not associated with the abiotic stress. The maximum computational capacity of the proteins involved in various sub-processes of the heat stress response was also compared. Our results show that there is a statistically significant difference in the maximum computational capacity of the proteins associated with abiotic stress and proteins not associated with the abiotic stress. Besides this it is also apparent from our studies that the mean maximum computational capacity of the proteins involved in various sub-processes of heat stress response is different. The concept of maximum computational capacity has been applied to the proteins for the first time in this study.
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Grover, M., Mishra, D.C., Sharma, N. et al. The maximum computational capacity of proteins involved in abiotic stress differs significantly from the proteins not involved in abiotic stress. Natl. Acad. Sci. Lett. 40, 233–235 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40009-017-0557-2
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