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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2021

Heat Stress Responses and Thermotolerance in Maize.

Zhaoxia Li, Stephen H Howell

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers.

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67citing papers in PubMed
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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

67 citing papers in PubMed, 117 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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zhaoxia LiPlant Sciences Institute, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
Stephen H HowellPlant Sciences Institute, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
Iowa State University · US

Funding

Iowa State University's Plant Sciences Institute Research Scholar awards to S.H.HNational Science Foundation Plant Genome Research Program IOS 1444339
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High temperatures causing heat stress disturb cellular homeostasis and impede growth and development in plants. Extensive agricultural losses are attributed to heat stress, often in combination with other stresses. Plants have evolved a variety of responses to heat stress to minimize damage and to protect themselves from further stress. A narrow temperature window separates growth from heat stress, and the range of temperatures conferring optimal growth often overlap with those producing heat stress. Heat stress induces a cytoplasmic heat stress response (HSR) in which heat shock transcription factors (HSFs) activate a constellation of genes encoding heat shock proteins (HSPs). Heat stress also induces the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-localized unfolded protein response (UPR), which activates transcription factors that upregulate a different family of stress response genes. Heat stress also activates hormone responses and alternative RNA splicing, all of which may contribute to thermotolerance. Heat stress is often studied by subjecting plants to step increases in temperatures; however, more recent studies have demonstrated that heat shock responses occur under simulated field conditions in which temperatures are slowly ramped up to more moderate temperatures. Heat stress responses, assessed at a molecular level, could be used as traits for plant breeders to select for thermotolerance.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, PlantHeat-Shock ResponseHeat Shock Transcription FactorsHot TemperatureThermotoleranceTranscriptional ActivationUnfolded Protein ResponseZea maysHeat Shock Transcription Factorsheat stressmaizepost-transcriptional regulationtranscriptional regulation

Identifiers

PMID33477941
PMCPMC7833377
OpenAlexW3125132225

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