title: Recent molecular advances on downstream plant responses to abiotic stress.
abstract: Abiotic stresses such as extremes of temperature and pH, high salinity and drought, comprise some of the major factors causing extensive losses to crop production worldwide. Understanding how plants respond and adapt at cellular and molecular levels to continuous environmental changes is a pre-requisite for the generation of resistant or tolerant plants to abiotic stresses. In this review we aimed to present the recent advances on mechanisms of downstream plant responses to abiotic stresses and the use of stress-related genes in the development of genetically engineered crops.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Guamá, Belém, PA 66075-110, Brazil.
authors.forename: Sávio Pinho
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Dos Reis
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Guamá, Belém, PA 66075-110, Brazil.
authors.forename: Aline Medeiros
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Lima
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Guamá, Belém, PA 66075-110, Brazil.
authors.forename: Cláudia Regina Batista
authors.initials: CRB
authors.lastname: De Souza
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D064587:Osmoregulation; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D010944:Plants; D013312:Stress, Physiological
chemical_list: D010940:Plant Proteins