cell response to drought

[Fakrudin B.]

The complexity of the plant response to abiotic stress. Primary stresses, such as drought, salinity, cold, heat and chemical pollution are often interconnected, and cause cellular damage and secondary stresses, such as osmotic and oxidative stress. The initial stress signals (e.g. osmotic and ionic effects, or temperature, membrane fluidity changes) trigger the downstream signaling process and transcription controls which activate stress-responsive mechanisms to re-establish homeostasis and protect and repair damaged proteins and membranes. Inadequate response at one or several steps in the signaling and gene activation may ultimately result in irreversible changes of cellular homeostasis and in the destruction of functional and structural proteins and membranes, leading to cell death.

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B. Fakrudin,  Ph.D.
Department of Biotechnology/IABT
University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad
Krishinagar, DHARWAD-580 005
Karnataka, INDIA
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