Water deficiency compromises plant performance and yield in many habitats and in
agriculture. In addition to survival of the acute drought stress period which depends on plant …

The WRKY gene family is among the largest families of transcription factors (TFs) in higher
plants. By regulating the plant hormone signal transduction pathway, these TFs play critical …

Abiotic stresses rewire plant central metabolism to maintain metabolic and energy
homeostasis. Metabolites involved in the plant central metabolic network serve as a hub for …

Desiccation of plants is often lethal but is tolerated by the majority of seeds and by
vegetative tissues of only a small number of land plants. Desiccation tolerance is an ancient …

Plants heat shock factors (HSFs) are encoded by large gene families with variable structure,
expression, and function. HSFs are components of complex signaling systems that control …

Metabolomics is one omics approach that can be used to acquire comprehensive
information on the composition of a metabolite pool to provide a functional screen of the …

Most higher plants are unable to survive desiccation to an air-dried state. An exception is a
small group of vascular angiosperm plants, termed resurrection plants. They have evolved …

The survival of extreme water deficit stress by tolerant organisms requires a coordinated
series of responses, including those at cellular, transcriptional, translational and metabolic …

Drought is one of the major challenges affecting crop productivity and yield. However, water
stress responses are notoriously multigenic and quantitative with strong environmental …

Metabolomics is a research field used to acquire comprehensive information on the
composition of a metabolite pool to provide a functional screen of the cellular state. Studies …