TY - JOUR
T1 - Water-deficit stress-induced anatomical changes in higher plants
AU - Shao, Hong Bo
AU - Chu, Li Ye
AU - Jaleel, Cheruth Abdul
AU - Zhao, Chang Xing
N1 - Funding Information:
Research in Professor Shao HB's laboratory is jointly supported by the 973 Project of China (2007CB106803), the Doctoral Foundation of QUST (0022221), the Shao Ming-An's Innovation Team Projects of Education Pinistry of China, and the Specialized Initiation Foundation of Excellent Ph.D. Dissertation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
PY - 2008/3
Y1 - 2008/3
N2 - Water is vital for plant growth and development. Water-deficit stress, permanent or temporary, limits the growth and the distribution of natural vegetation and the performance of cultivated plants more than any other environmental factors do. Although research and practices aimed at improving water-stress resistance and water-use efficiency have been carried out for many years, the mechanism involved is still not clear. Further understanding and manipulating plant-water relations and water-stress tolerance at the scale of physiology and molecular biology can significantly improve plant productivity and environmental quality. Currently, post-genomics and metabolomics are very important to explore anti-drought gene resource in different life forms, but modern agricultural sustainable development must be combined with plant physiological measures in the field, on the basis of which post-genomics and metabolomics will have further a practical prospect. In this review, we discussed the anatomical changes and drought-tolerance strategies under drought condition in higher plants. To cite this article: H.-B. Shao et al., C. R. Biologies 331 (2008).
AB - Water is vital for plant growth and development. Water-deficit stress, permanent or temporary, limits the growth and the distribution of natural vegetation and the performance of cultivated plants more than any other environmental factors do. Although research and practices aimed at improving water-stress resistance and water-use efficiency have been carried out for many years, the mechanism involved is still not clear. Further understanding and manipulating plant-water relations and water-stress tolerance at the scale of physiology and molecular biology can significantly improve plant productivity and environmental quality. Currently, post-genomics and metabolomics are very important to explore anti-drought gene resource in different life forms, but modern agricultural sustainable development must be combined with plant physiological measures in the field, on the basis of which post-genomics and metabolomics will have further a practical prospect. In this review, we discussed the anatomical changes and drought-tolerance strategies under drought condition in higher plants. To cite this article: H.-B. Shao et al., C. R. Biologies 331 (2008).
KW - Drought
KW - Higher plants
KW - Morphology
KW - Responsive genes
KW - Water use efficiency (WUE)
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U2 - 10.1016/j.crvi.2008.01.002
DO - 10.1016/j.crvi.2008.01.002
M3 - Short survey
C2 - 18280987
AN - SCOPUS:39149091688
SN - 1631-0691
VL - 331
SP - 215
EP - 225
JO - Comptes Rendus - Biologies
JF - Comptes Rendus - Biologies
IS - 3
ER -