Abiotic stresses, including drought and salinity, trigger a complex osmotic-stress and
abscisic acid (ABA) signal transduction network. The core ABA signalling components are …

Stomatal pores close rapidly in response to low-air-humidity-induced leaf-to-air vapor
pressure difference (VPD) increases, thereby reducing excessive water loss. The …

Low concentrations of CO2 cause stomatal opening, whereas [CO2] elevation leads to
stomatal closure. Classical studies have suggested a role for Ca2+ and protein …

Background Guard cells perceive external and internal stimuli and regulate stomatal
conductance in plants. With the use of gas exchange analyzers, time-resolved stomatal …

Arsenic stress causes rapid transcriptional responses in plants. However, transcriptional
regulators of arsenic‐induced gene expression in plants remain less well known. To date …

Plants respond to increased CO2 concentrations through stomatal closure, which can
contribute to increased water use efficiency. Grasses display faster stomatal responses than …

Insight into how plants simultaneously cope with multiple stresses, for example, when
challenged with biotic stress from pathogen infection and abiotic stress from drought, is …

Plastids are the site of complex biochemical pathways, most prominently photosynthesis.
The organelle evolved through endosymbiosis with a cyanobacterium, which is exemplified …

RNA interference (RNAi) is based on the sequence-specific degradation of target RNAs by
highly complementary small RNAs (sRNAs), which can be engineered to selectively target …

Evolutionary history of angiosperms illustrates extensive and recurrent whole genome
duplication (WGD) events. A direct consequence of WGD is establishment of multiple …