Agricultural productivity worldwide is subject to increasing environmental constraints,
particularly to drought and salinity due to their high magnitude of impact and wide distribution. …

Inhibition of photosynthesis is a central, primary response that is observed in both
desiccation-tolerant and desiccation-sensitive plants affected by drought stress. Decreased …

Adverse environmental conditions restrict the productivity and the range of habitats available
to plants. This represents a severe economic constraint on agricultural production. Plants …

Aldehyde dehydrogenases (ALDHs) play a major role in the detoxification processes of
aldehydes generated in plants when exposed to abiotic stress. In previous studies, we have …

Plant genomes, and eukaryotic genomes in general, are typically repetitive, polyploid and
heterozygous, which complicates genome assembly 1 . The short read lengths of early Sanger …

In plants, oxidative stress is one of the major causes of damage as a result of various
environmental stresses. Oxidative stress is primarily because of the excessive accumulation of …

Lipids are one of the major components of biological membranes including the plasma
membrane, which is the interface between the cell and the environment. It has become clear that …

Leaves of the resurrection plant Craterostigma plantagineum Hochst, can be desiccated up
to 1% relative water content and are still viable after rehydration. To clone genes related to …

Two new abscisic acid (ABA)-insensitive mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana affected in the
abi3 locus are described. These new mutants are severely ABA insensitive. Like the earlier …

Phospholipids play an important role in many signaling pathways in animal cells. Signaling
cascades are triggered by the activation of phospholipid cleaving enzymes such as …