Introduction
Our society is at present facing various challenges, such as climate change, competition for land use, rising demands for food, etc. Addressing these problems will depend in part upon expanding our knowledge of plant biology, because plants provide us with food and other sustainable resources. Drought is an abiotic stress responsible for some of the greatest crop losses. Water deficiency limits plant yields; therefore, improvement in drought stress tolerance may markedly increase crop yields.
Understanding drought stress responses in plants has been an active area of plant research. Historically, drought stress responses have been observed through numerous physiological experiments in various plants, including crops, vegetables, trees, and horticulture plants. In addition to classical studies, there has been marked progress in molecular biological analyses over the last decade. Particularly, the availability of the Arabidopsisgenome sequence has had a major impact on all...
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Kuromori, T., Mizoi, J., Umezawa, T., Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, K., Shinozaki, K. (2014). Drought Stress Signaling Network. In: Howell, S. (eds) Molecular Biology. The Plant Sciences, vol 2. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7570-5_7
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