Role of Heat Shock Proteins in Improving Heat Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants

  • Palakolanu Sudhakar Reddy
  • Thammineni Chakradhar
  • Ramesha A. Reddy
  • Rahul B. Nitnavare
  • Srikrishna Mahanty
  • Malireddy K. Reddy
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Part of the Heat Shock Proteins book series (HESP, volume 10)

Abstract

High temperature response (HTR) or heat stress response (HSR) is a highly conserved phenomenon, which involves complex networks among different crop species. Heat stress usually results in protein dysfunction by improper folding of its linear amino acid chains to non-native proteins. This leads to unfavourable interactions and subsequent protein aggregation. To tackle this, plants have developed molecular chaperone machinery to maintain high quality proteins in the cell. This is governed by increasing the level of pre-existing molecular chaperones and by expressing additional chaperones through signalling mechanism. Dissecting the molecular mechanism by which plants counter heat stress and identification of important molecules involved are of high priority. This could help in the development of plants with improved heat stress tolerance through advanced genomics and genetic engineering approaches. Owing to this reason molecular chaperones/Heat shock proteins (Hsps) are considered as potential candidates to address the issue of heat stress. In this chapter, recent progress on systematic analyses of heat shock proteins, their classification and role in plant response to heat stress along with an overview of genomic and transgenic approaches to overcome the issue, are summarized.

Keywords

Heat shock element Heat shock factors Heat shock proteins Heat shock response Heat stress 

Abbreviations

HSE

heat-shock element

HSF

heat shock factor

HSPs

heat shock proteins

HSR

heat stress response

HTR

high temperature response

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Notes

Acknowledgements

This work was supported partially from the Department of Biotechnology (Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India) to MKR. PSR acknowledges the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India for the fellowship and research grant through the INSPIRE Faculty Award No. IFA11-LSPA-06 and Young Scientist Scheme SB/YS/LS-12/2013.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Palakolanu Sudhakar Reddy
    • 1
    • 2
  • Thammineni Chakradhar
    • 1
  • Ramesha A. Reddy
    • 1
  • Rahul B. Nitnavare
    • 3
  • Srikrishna Mahanty
    • 1
  • Malireddy K. Reddy
    • 1
  1. 1.Plant Molecular Biology GroupInternational Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)New DelhiIndia
  2. 2.Crop Physiology, Dryland CerealsInternational Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)Patancheru, HyderabadIndia
  3. 3.Institute of Bioinformatics and BiotechnologySavitribai Phule Pune UniversityPuneIndia

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