Mechanisms of plant desiccation tolerance.

TL;DR: The present review summarizes the recent advances in elucidating stress-response mechanisms and their biotechnological applications and examines the following aspects: regulatory controls, metabolite engineering, ion transport, antioxidants and detoxification, late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) and heat-shock proteins.

TL;DR: Various factors pertaining to cold acclimation, promoter elements, and role of transcription factors in stress signaling pathway have been described, and the role of calcium as an important signaling molecule in response to various stress signals has been covered.

TL;DR: The responses of plants to salt and water stress are described, the regulatory circuits which allow plants to cope with stress are presented, and how the present knowledge can be applied to obtain tolerant plants is discussed.

TL;DR: A comprehensive account of conventional as well as modern approaches to deal with heat and drought stresses have been presented here and a side-by-side critical discussion on salient responses and management strategies for these two important abiotic stresses provides a unique insight into the phenomena.

TL;DR: A large number of genes with a potential role in drought tolerance have been described, and major themes in the molecular response have been established.

TL;DR: In re-assessing the functional significance of compatible solute accumulation, it is suggested that proline and glycine betaine synthesis may buffer cellular redox potential and contribute to stress-tolerant phenotypes observed.

TL;DR: This chapter discusses the implications of seed-associated mycoflora during storage biochemical processes during osmotic priming of seeds improvement of protein quality in seeds overproduction of essential amino acids in seeds artificial seeds.

TL;DR: Progress on the mapping of dhn genes and the inheritance of freezing tolerance in barley and other Triticeae species tentatively points to dehydrins as key components of dehydration tolerance, which may be structure stabilizers with detergent and chaperone-like properties and an array of nuclear and cytoplasmic targets.