Handbook of Plant and Crop Physiology

polyserine region is a site for phosphorylation [20,21]. The lysine-rich signature motif is also found at the carboxy terminus. ...

similarity with fish antifreeze protein was noted [35]; however, there is no functional evidence for the role of these proteins ...

Proteases Proteases have also been shown to be induced by abiotic stresses. A thiol protease is induced in pea by water defici ...

have been identified that are involved in antifungal activity, protection from freeze-thaw inactivation, transport of water, RNA ...

four genes in this family, each with different expression characteristics. Two members of this family are induced by decreased t ...

tion in wheat [91]. Germinlike proteins of barley accumulated only in roots after salt stress. The proteins are soluble upon boi ...

multiple responses to stress, and the elimination of a single aspect of the stress response may not have a significant effect on ...

pathway, have been used for this purpose. In each of these cases, several genes have been identified which require ABA for expre ...

application [106]. Further delineation of the 5 -flanking DNA of Emidentified a 50-bp DNA sequence that is sufficient for ABA in ...

the G-box are complexes made up of at least two different proteins [119]. A complex array of events is required for ABA-regulate ...

Removal of the carboxyl group, the 1 -hydroxyl, and the 4 -carbonyl had the greatest reduction in gene expression [126]. The ABA ...

V Lång, ET Palva. Plant Mol Biol 20:951, 1992. K Schneider, B Wells, E Schmelzer, F Salamini, D Bartels. Planta 189:120, 1993. ...

MF Thomashow. In: TJ Close, EA Bray, eds. Plant Responses to Cellular Dehydration During Environmental Stress. Current Topics i ...

37 How Plants Adapt Their Physiology to an Excess of Metals Martine Bertrand and Jean-Claude Guary National Institute for Marine ...

Making a generalization about metal toxicity is difficult. This is due to the multidimensional varia- tions of the parameters ch ...

uptake by Ulva lactucaincreases when salinity decreases [32]. The primary active transport system in al- gae has been identified ...

wheat, maize), for which better resistance to Al toxicity is associated with root exudation of citric acid, succinic acid, and o ...

in metals (e.g., mine soils and deposits) or even directly on metal veins [41,73]. This adaptation of plants is not well underst ...

tripeptide loses its Gly, and the two other remaining amino acids are bound to the PC. Formation of longer PC chains increases t ...

only some of them (i.e., Cd^2 , Hg^2 , Pb^2 , Cu, Ag) are able to form complexes with PC [98–101]. An alternative role for ...