What is it about?
Water is the basic molecule in living beings, and it has a major impact on vital processes. Plants are sessile organisms with a sophisticated regulatory network that regulates how resources are distributed between developmental and adaptation processes. Drought-stressed plants can change their survival strategies to adapt to this unfavorable situation. Indeed, plants modify, change, and modulate gene expression when grown in a low-water environment.
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Why is it important?
This adaptation occurs through several mechanisms that affect the expression of genes, allowing these plants to resist in dry regions. Epigenetic modulation has emerged as a major factor in the transcription regulation of drought stress-related genes. Moreover, specific molecular and epigenetic modifications in the expression of certain genetic networks lead to adapted responses that aid a plant's acclimatization and survival during repeated stress. Indeed, understanding plant responses to severe environmental stresses, including drought, is critical for biotechnological applications.
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Here, we first focused on drought stress in plants and their general adaptation mechanisms to this stress. We also discussed plant epigenetic regulation when exposed to water stress and how this adaptation can be passed down through generations.
habilitated doctor, chemist Monica BUTNARIU
University of Life Sciences "King Mihai I" from Timisoara
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This page is a summary of: Impact of water stress to plant epigenetic mechanisms in stress and adaptation, Physiologia Plantarum, January 2025, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/ppl.70058.
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