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Tolerance to Drought Stress in Plants: Unravelling the Signaling Networks

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Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants, Vol 2

Abstract

Growth, development, and response to diverse environmental cues in all organisms rely on extra-, inter-, and intracellular communication mediated by complex signaling networks. In plants, there are several ways to achieve this, which include a wide array of receptors, secondary messengers, cascading kinases, reactive oxygen species, phytohormones, mobile transcription factors, noncoding RNAs, and secreted signaling peptides. Plant stability under stress is also vested with the concerted performance of the nuclear, mitochondrial, and chloroplast genomes, the relationship among which is not well defined. However, the signaling pathways that aid in the communication between various organelles of a plant cell are complex and interdependent. Among the various abiotic stresses, giving more focus to unravel the diverse signaling networks associated with drought stress response would be more rewarding in the wake of the increasing threat of acute water shortages in conjunction with the highly unpredictable climate scenario. A comprehensive understanding of the intricate drought stress response signaling networks will help in identifying key strategic candidates which when pathway engineered could help in achieving realizable levels of drought tolerance. This is very critical in the context of the polygenic nature of drought tolerance. Hence in this chapter we aim to address diverse plant stress signaling pathways and their overlapping roles in imparting tolerance to drought stress.

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This work is partly supported by Department of Biotechnology and Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Government of India, New Delhi. PMS would like to thank CSIR-UGC, New Delhi for providing a research fellowship.

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Nataraja, K.N., Parvathi, M.S. (2016). Tolerance to Drought Stress in Plants: Unravelling the Signaling Networks. In: Hossain, M., Wani, S., Bhattacharjee, S., Burritt, D., Tran, LS. (eds) Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants, Vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32423-4_3

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