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Cytokinins and Water Stress

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Biologia Plantarum

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It is almost impossible to find a single process in plant life that is not affected by both stress and hormones directly or indirectly. This minireview is focused on the interactions between water stress and cytokinins (CKs). The attention was paid mainly to changes in endogenous CK content and composition under water stress, involvement of CK in plant responses to water stress mainly in stomatal regulation of gas exchange, water relations of transgenic plants with elevated CK content, and possibilities to ameliorate the negative effects of water stress by application of exogenous CKs.

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  2. Faculty of Science, Department of Plant Physiology, Charles University, Viničná 5, CZ-12844, Praha 2, Czech Republic

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Pospíšilová, J., Synková, H. & Rulcová, J. Cytokinins and Water Stress. Biologia Plantarum 43, 321–328 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026754404857

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