Effects of abiotic stress on plants: a systems biology perspective

By G. Cramer, Kaoru Urano, S. Delrot, M. Pezzotti, Kazuo Shinozaki. BMC Plant Biology, 2011

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The natural environment for plants is composed of a complex set of abiotic stresses and biotic stresses. Plant responses to these stresses are equally complex. Systems biology approaches facilitate a multi-targeted approach by allowing one to identify regulatory hubs in complex networks. Systems biology takes the molecular parts (transcripts, proteins and metabolites) of an organism and attempts to fit them into functional networks or models designed to describe and predict the dynamic activities of that organism in different environments. In this review, research progress in plant responses to abiotic stresses is summarized from the physiological level to the molecular level. New insights obtained from the integration of omics datasets are highlighted. Gaps in our knowledge are identified, providing additional focus areas for crop improvement research in the future.

Subfields: Genetics, Plant Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Abiotic Stress Responses and Microbe-Mediated Mitigation in Plants: The Omics Strategies (2017, background): “Thirteen percent of the total land area of the world is affected by problems of flooding or anoxia (Cramer et al., 2011).”
• Worldwide Research on Plant Defense against Biotic Stresses as Improvement for Sustainable Agriculture (2018, background): “Abscisic acid is the primary hormone implicated in the sensing of numerous abiotic stresses [67], while “Salicylic acid”, “Jasmonic acid” and “Ethylene” hormones mainly mediate biotic stress responses [68].”
• Plant Responses to Simultaneous Biotic and Abiotic Stress: Molecular Mechanisms (2014, background): “abiotic stress [30,97,114]? The beneficial role of SA in the relationship between plants and pathogens has been extensively studied.”
• Abiotic Stress Responses in Plants: Unraveling the Complexity of Genes and Networks to Survive (2013, background): “It is anticipated that this trend will continue into the next decade in light of current developments in crop functional resources [281] and in view of the exponential number of papers published on abiotic stress studies in plants using a systems biology approaches during the last decade [279].”
• The use of metabolomics to dissect plant responses to abiotic stresses (2012, background): “This can be solved by comparing the metabolomic data with those from transcriptomic or proteomic analysis or activities of specific enzymes [143].”
• Biostimulants Application in Horticultural Crops under Abiotic Stress Conditions (2019, background): “[5] estimated the impacts of different abiotic stresses on crop production in terms of the percentage of global land area affected, considering the 2000 and 2007 FAO reports.”
• Abiotic Stress in Plants; Stress Perception to Molecular Response and Role of Biotechnological Tools in Stress Resistance (2021, methodology): “The most common of these are the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade, reactive oxygen species (ROS) signaling pathway, and Ca-Calmodulin pathway [45].”
• Metabolic and molecular-genetic regulation of proline signaling and itscross-talk with major effectors mediates abiotic stress tolerance in plants (2015, background): “This is because their production is expected to decline in the future due to dearth of arable land, depletion of water resources, global warming, and drastic climatic alterations (Cramer et al., 2011).”