title: The roles of ROS and ABA in systemic acquired acclimation.
abstract: Systemic responses to environmental stimuli are essential for the survival of multicellular organisms. In plants, they are initiated in response to many different signals including pathogens, wounding, and abiotic stresses. Recent studies highlighted the importance of systemic acquired acclimation to abiotic stresses in plants and identified several different signals involved in this response. These included reactive oxygen species (ROS) and calcium waves, hydraulic waves, electric signals, and abscisic acid (ABA). Here, we address the interactions between ROS and ABA at the local and systemic tissues of plants subjected to abiotic stress and attempt to propose a model for the involvement of ROS, ABA, and stomata in systemic signaling leading to systemic acquired acclimation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 76203 ron.mittler@unt.edu.
authors.forename: Ron
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mittler
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, California 95616-5270.
authors.forename: Eduardo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Blumwald
mesh_terms: D000040:Abscisic Acid / Q000378:metabolism*; D000064:Acclimatization; D054046:Plant Stomata / Q000378:metabolism; D010944:Plants / Q000378:metabolism*; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species; D000040:Abscisic Acid