Potassium in plants: Growth regulation, signaling, and environmental stress tolerance

R Johnson, K Vishwakarma, MS Hossen… - Plant Physiology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Potassium (K) is an essential element for the growth and development of plants; however, its
scarcity or excessive level leads to distortion of numerous functions in plants. It takes part in …

Potassium: a vital regulator of plant responses and tolerance to abiotic stresses

M Hasanuzzaman, MHMB Bhuyan, K Nahar… - Agronomy, 2018 - mdpi.com
Among the plant nutrients, potassium (K) is one of the vital elements required for plant
growth and physiology. Potassium is not only a constituent of the plant structure but it also …

Effects of potassium levels on plant growth, accumulation and distribution of carbon, and nitrate metabolism in apple dwarf rootstock seedlings

X Xu, X Du, F Wang, J Sha, Q Chen, G Tian… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Nitrogen (N) is one of the most required mineral elements for plant growth, and potassium
(K) plays a vital role in nitrogen metabolism, both elements being widely applied as …

[HTML][HTML] Synergistic and antagonistic interactions between potassium and magnesium in higher plants

K **e, I Cakmak, S Wang, F Zhang, S Guo - The Crop Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Magnesium (Mg) affects various critical physiological and biochemical processes in higher
plants, and its deficiency impedes plant growth and development. Although potassium (K) …

Stress-induced electrolyte leakage: the role of K+-permeable channels and involvement in programmed cell death and metabolic adjustment

V Demidchik, D Straltsova, SS Medvedev… - Journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Electrolyte leakage accompanies plant response to stresses, such as salinity, pathogen
attack, drought, heavy metals, hyperthermia, and hypothermia; however, the mechanism and …

Potassium: a neglected nutrient in global change

J Sardans, J Peñuelas - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Potassium (K) is the second most abundant nutrient in plant photosynthetic tissues after
nitrogen (N). Thousands of physiological and metabolic studies in recent decades have …

The use of metabolomics to dissect plant responses to abiotic stresses

T Obata, AR Fernie - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2012 - Springer
Plant metabolism is perturbed by various abiotic stresses. As such the metabolic network of
plants must be reconfigured under stress conditions in order to allow both the maintenance …

Potassium transport and signaling in higher plants

Y Wang, WH Wu - Annual review of plant biology, 2013 - annualreviews.org
As one of the most important mineral nutrient elements, potassium (K+) participates in many
plant physiological processes and determines the yield and quality of crop production. In this …

Going beyond nutrition: regulation of potassium homoeostasis as a common denominator of plant adaptive responses to environment

U Anschütz, D Becker, S Shabala - Journal of plant physiology, 2014 - Elsevier
Partially and fully completed plant genome sequencing projects in both lower and higher
plants allow drawing a comprehensive picture of the molecular and structural diversities of …

Physiological functions of mineral macronutrients

FJM Maathuis - Current opinion in plant biology, 2009 - Elsevier
Plants require calcium, magnesium, nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium and sulfur in
relatively large amounts (> 0.1% of dry mass) and each of these so-called macronutrients is …