Plant Tolerance to Abiotic Stresses: Physiochemical Responses and Molecular Mechanisms

Review articles

• Phytohormones and their metabolic engineering for abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants

Shabir H. Wani, Vinay Kumar, Varsha Shriram, Saroj Kumar Sah

• The landscape of molecular mechanisms for salt tolerance in wheat

Meng Wang, Guangmin Xia

• Plant salt tolerance and Na(+) sensing and transport

Honghong Wu

• Interplay between nitric oxide and sulfur assimilation in salt tolerance in plants

Mehar Fatma, Asim Masood, Tasir S. Per, Faisal Rasheed, Nafees A. Khan

• Genetic improvement of heat tolerance in wheat: Recent progress in understanding the underlying molecular mechanisms

Zhongfu Ni, Hongjian Li, Yue Zhao, Huiru Peng, Zhaorong Hu, Mingming Xin, Qixin Sun

Research papers

• Function of the auxin-responsive gene TaSAUR75 under salt and drought stress

Yuan Guo, Qiyan Jiang, Zheng Hu, Xianjun Sun, Shoujin Fan, Hui Zhang

• Piriformospora indica confers drought tolerance on Zea mays L. through enhancement of antioxidant activity and expression of drought-related genes

Le Xu, Aiai Wang, Jun Wang, Qiao Wei, Wenying Zhang

• Maintenance of mesophyll potassium and regulation of plasma membrane H(+)-ATPase are associated with physiological responses of tea plants to drought and subsequent rehydration

        Xianchen Zhang, Honghong Wu, Linmu Chen, Linlin Liu, Xiaochun Wan

• Interactive effects of drought stress and chitosan application on physiological characteristics and essential oil yield of Thymus daenensis Celak

Zohreh Emami Bistgani, Seyed Ataollah Siadat, Abdolmehdi Bakhshandeh, Abdollah Ghasemi Pirbalouti, Masoud Hashemi

• Ameliorative effects of potassium on drought-induced decreases in fiber length of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) are associated with osmolyte dynamics during fiber development

Wenqing Zhao, Haoran Dong, Rizwan Zahoor, Zhiguo Zhou, John L. Snider, Yinglong Chen, Kadambot H.M. Siddique, Youhua Wang

• Overaccumulation of glycine betaine makes the function of the thylakoid membrane better in wheat under salt stress

        Fengxia Tian, Wenqiang Wang, Chao Liang, Xin Wang, Guiping Wang, Wei Wang

• Comparative analysis of metabolite changes in two contrasting rice genotypes in response to low-nitrogen stress

Xiuqin Zhao, Wensheng Wang, Ziyan Xie, Yongming Gao, Chunchao Wang, Muhammed Mahbubur Rashid, Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, Binying Fu, Zhikang Li

• Alleviation of nickel toxicity in finger millet (Eleusine coracana L.) germinating seedlings by exogenous application of salicylic acid and nitric oxide

Kasi Viswanath Kotapati, Bhagath Kumar Palaka, Dinakara Rao Ampasala