ArticlePlant signaling & behavior2019
Misleading conclusions from exogenous ABA application: a cautionary tale about the evolution of stomatal responses to changes in leaf water status.
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- Aba-induced active stomatal closure in bulb scales of Lanzhou lily.Plant signaling & behavior · 2025Article
- Petal stomata ofFrontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Stomata: custodians of leaf gaseous exchange.Journal of experimental botany · 2024Article
- Light, rather than circadian rhythm, regulates gas exchange in ferns and lycophytes.Plant physiology · 2023Article
- Signaling mechanisms in abscisic acid-mediated stomatal closure.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2021Review
- Breaking Bad News: Dynamic Molecular Mechanisms of Wound Response in Plants.Frontiers in plant science · 2020Review
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Abstract
Stomatal responses to changes in leaf water status are critical for minimizing excessive water loss during soil drought. A major debate has surrounded the evolution of stomatal responses to water status and this debate has particularly focused on the evolution of the regulatory role of the drought hormone abscisic acid (ABA). Studies relying on the application of high levels of exogenous ABA have occasionally concluded that all stomata respond to ABA and that stomatal regulation in response to this hormone has not evolved over the past 450 million years. In contrast, studies which have investigated stomatal function in intact plants, as well as the role of endogenous ABA in regulating stomatal aperture, have found major evolutionary transitions in the functional regulation of stomata across land plant lineages. We show that endogenous ABA plays no role in closing the stomata of the fern
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