The hypersensitive reaction to a pathogen is one of the most efficient defense mechanisms
in nature and leads to the induction of numerous plant genes encoding defense proteins …

Plant molecular responses to osmotic stress are complex as evidenced by the isolation of
numerous OR (osmotic stress-regulated) genes. Although functions including osmolyte …

Combinations of ethylene and methyl jasmonate (E/MeJA) synergistically induced members
of both groups 1 and 5 of the pathogenesis-related (PR) superfamily of defense genes …

Transgenic potato and tobacco plants carrying the osmotin gene under the control of the
cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter constitutively overexpressed osmotin to a level of …

Early changes in physiological and oxidative status induced by salt stress were monitored in
two Brassicaceae plants differing in their tolerance to salinity, Cakile maritima (halophyte) …

A great deal of research has been focused on the isolation, characterization, and regulation
of expression of pathogenesis-related proteins since the discovery that several of the PR …

Saline water occupies 71% of the Earth area. It is thought that even a quarter of the whole
pedosphere is affected by salts (Glenn and O'Leary, 1985), amounting to 950 x 106 ha …

Osmotin is a stress responsive antifungal protein belonging to the pathogenesis-related
(PR)-5 family that confers tolerance to both biotic and abiotic stresses in plants. Protective …

NaCl regulation of plasma membrane H+-ATPase gene expression in the glycophyte
tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L. var Wisconsin 38) and the halophyte Atriplex nummularia L …

Salt stress effects on growth, osmotic adjustment, mineral and organic contents and soluble
peroxidase activities were determined in roots and leaves of Atriplex halimus and their …