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ReviewJournal of developmental biology2016

The Roles of Aquaporins in Plant Stress Responses.

Zunaira Afzal, T C Howton, Yali Sun, M Shahid Mukhtar

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Review in Journal of developmental biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 148 papers.

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148citing papers in PubMed
13.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

148 citing papers in PubMed, 353 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zunaira AfzalDepartment of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA. zunaira1@uab.edu.
T C HowtonDepartment of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA. tchowton@uab.edu.
Yali SunDepartment of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA. yalisun@uab.edu.
M Shahid MukhtarDepartment of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA. smukhtar@uab.edu.
University of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aquaporins are membrane channel proteins ubiquitously present in all kingdoms of life. Although aquaporins were originally discovered as water channels, their roles in the transport of small neutral solutes, gasses, and metal ions are now well established. Plants contain the largest number and greatest diversity of aquaporin homologs with diverse subcellular localization patterns, gating properties, and solute specificity. The roles of aquaporins in physiological functions throughout plant growth and development are well known. As an integral regulator of plant-water relations, they are presumed to play an important role in plant defense responses against biotic and abiotic stressors. This review highlights involvement of various aquaporin homologs in plant stress responses against a variety of environmental stresses that disturb plant cell osmotic balance and nutrient homeostasis.

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abiotic stressaquaporinsbiotic stresscold stressdroughtnutrient homeostasisosmotic stresssalinity

Identifiers

PMID29615577
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