Response of plants to water stress

By Yuriko Osakabe, K. Osakabe, Kazuo Shinozaki, Lam-Son Phan Tran. Frontiers in Plant Science, 2014

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Water stress adversely impacts many aspects of the physiology of plants, especially photosynthetic capacity. If the stress is prolonged, plant growth, and productivity are severely diminished. Plants have evolved complex physiological and biochemical adaptations to adjust and adapt to a variety of environmental stresses. The molecular and physiological mechanisms associated with water-stress tolerance and water-use efficiency have been extensively studied. The systems that regulate plant adaptation to water stress through a sophisticated regulatory network are the subject of the current review. Molecular mechanisms that plants use to increase stress tolerance, maintain appropriate hormone homeostasis and responses and prevent excess light damage, are also discussed. An understanding of how these systems are regulated and ameliorate the impact of water stress on plant productivity will provide the information needed to improve plant stress tolerance using biotechnology, while maintaining the yield and quality of crops.

Subfields: Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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Abiotic Stress Responses and Microbe-Mediated Mitigation in Plants: The Omics Strategies (2017, background): “Prolonged water stress decreases leaf water potential and stomatal opening, reduces leaf size, suppresses root growth, reduces seed number, size, and viability, delays flowering and fruiting and limits plant growth and productivity (Osakabe et al., 2014; Xu et al., 2016) (Figure 1).”
The Impact of Drought in Plant Metabolism: How to Exploit Tolerance Mechanisms to Increase Crop Production (2020, background): “During the progression of plant growth, drought basically influences the plant water relations, which in turn cause severe perturbation to the whole plant metabolism (at physiological, biochemical and molecular levels), depending to the stress severity and duration [14,28].”
The Role of the Plant Antioxidant System in Drought Tolerance (2019, background): “Cell wall-associated kinases (WAKs) are members of the receptor-like kinase (RLK) family and participate in the perception of turgor pressure changes during drought probably linking ROS bursts with phosphorylation of RBOHs [59].”
Drought Stress Impacts on Plants and Different Approaches to Alleviate Its Adverse Effects (2021, background): “Plants, therefore, have the ability to reduce their resource utilization and adjust their growth to cope against adverse environmental conditions like drought [14,15].”
ROS-mediated abiotic stress-induced programmed cell death in plants (2015, background): “Endogenous ABA, which regulates stomatal closure and thus CO2 uptake, rapidly accumulates during periods of water deprivation (Osakabe et al., 2014).”
Molecular responses to drought stress in plants (2017, positive): “* Corresponding author; e-mail: b.asthir@gmail.com Various molecular networks including signal transduction are also involved in drought stress responses (Osakabe et al. 2014, Nishiyama et al. 2013).”
Photosynthesis and antioxidative defense mechanisms in deciphering drought stress tolerance of crop plants (2016, background): “Drought stress is one of the most vital, multidimensional abiotic stress factors that adversely affect plant growth, metabolism, and yield (Osakabe et al. 2014) and is responsible for decreasing the crop yield by up to 50 % (Zlatev and Lidon 2012).”