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The plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) plays pivotal roles in many important physiological processes including stomatal closure, seed dormancy, growth and various environmental stresses. In these responses, ABA action is under the control of complex regulatory mechanisms involving homeostasis, perception and signaling. Recent studies provide new insights into these processes, which are of great importance in understanding the mechanisms underlying the evolutionary principle of how plants can survive as a sessile organism under ever-changing environmental conditions. They also form the basis for designing plants that have an enhanced resistance to various stresses in particular abiotic stress.
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Xu, ZY., Kim, D.H. & Hwang, I. ABA homeostasis and signaling involving multiple subcellular compartments and multiple receptors. Plant Cell Rep 32, 807–813 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00299-013-1396-3
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