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ABA: Metabolism, Regulation, and Functions in Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance

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Abiotic stresses exert negative effect on crop plant̍s development and yield, and they are a major obstacle in catering to the global food demand. Plants have different tactics to deal with various kinds of stresses. ABA plays critical part in plant responses to different kinds of stresses. ABA acts as a mediator in signaling pathway of plant responses to stress. ABA acts by altering osmotic conditions of affected plants exposed to stress conditions. During stress conditions, ABA starts a signal transduction chain that stimulates expression of different stress resistance genes helpful in adaptation of plants to different kinds of stresses. The abiotic stress tolerance mechanism is composed of sophisticated signal transduction pathway having phoshorylating, dephosphorylating compounds, transcription factors, and other regulatory elements. Epigenetic regulations are also an important part of ABA-mediated stress adaptation mechanisms. Methylation of DNA, changes in chromatin besides post-transcriptional, post-translational control are different regulatory levels of ABA-mediated stress gene expression network. Because ABA has a central role in crop plant’s abiotic stress tolerance strategy, genetic engineering at the level of ABA-mediated signal transduction pathway could be very useful in augmenting crop plants adaptation responses to stress. This review takes into account biosynthesis of ABA, its transport, and elements of ABA-directed signal transduction pathway. It also takes into account role of transcription factors in controlling ABA-directed signal transduction during abiotic stress, plant’s reactions to abiotic stress at different steps of genetic biosynthesizing machinery, and part played by microRNAs.

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Rizvi, M.Z., Ansari, S.A., Ansari, M.I. (2022). ABA: Metabolism, Regulation, and Functions in Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance. In: Ansari, S.A., Ansari, M.I., Husen, A. (eds) Augmenting Crop Productivity in Stress Environment. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6361-1_18

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