Calcium has well-documented roles in plant signaling, water relations and cell wall
interactions. Significant research into how calcium impacts these individual processes in …

The calcium-based intracellular signalling system is used ubiquitously to couple
extracellular stimuli to their characteristic intracellular responses. It is becoming clear from …

Water is crucial to plant growth and development. Environmental water deficiency triggers
an osmotic stress signalling cascade, which induces short-term cellular responses to reduce …

Higher plants survive terrestrial water deficiency and fluctuation by arresting cellular
activities (dehydration) and resuscitating processes (rehydration). However, how plants …

Stomatal pores are formed by pairs of specialized epidermal guard cells and serve as major
gateways for both CO2 influx into plants from the atmosphere and transpirational water loss …

Heat stress (HS) is expected to be of increasing worldwide concern in the near future,
especially with regard to crop yield and quality as a consequence of rising or varying …

Ca2+ signals are core transducers and regulators in many adaptation and developmental
processes of plants. Ca2+ signals are represented by stimulus-specific signatures that result …

Today no one questions the assertion that Ca2+ is a crucial regulator of growth and
development in plants. The myriad processes in which this ion participates is large and …

Guard cells perceive a variety of chemicals produced metabolically in response to abiotic
and biotic stresses, integrate the signals into reactive oxygen species and calcium …

Plant species exhibit a range of tolerances to low temperatures, and these constitute a major
determinant of their geographical distribution and use as crops. When tolerance is …