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ReviewPlants (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Plants' Physio-Biochemical and Phyto-Hormonal Responses to Alleviate the Adverse Effects of Drought Stress: A Comprehensive Review.

Abdul Wahab, Gholamreza Abdi, Muhammad Hamzah Saleem, Baber Ali, Saqib Ullah, Wadood Shah, Sahar Mumtaz, Ghulam Yasin, Crina Carmen Muresan, Romina Alina Marc

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Review in Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 163 papers.

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163citing papers in PubMed
89.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

163 citing papers in PubMed, 459 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

10 authors at 9 institutions in 4 countries.

Abdul WahabShanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2905-1106
Gholamreza AbdiDepartment of Biotechnology, Persian Gulf Research Institute, Persian Gulf University, Bushehr 75169, Iran.
Muhammad Hamzah SaleemCollege of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3658-770X
Baber AliDepartment of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0003-1553-2248
Saqib UllahDepartment of Botany, Islamia College, Peshawar 25120, Pakistan.
Wadood ShahDepartment of Botany, University of Peshawar, Peshawar 25120, Pakistan.
Sahar MumtazDepartment of Botany, Division of Science and Technology, University of Education, Lahore 54770, Pakistan.
Ghulam YasinDepartment of Botany, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan 60800, Pakistan.
Crina Carmen MuresanFood Engineering Department, Faculty of Food Science and Technology, University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, 3-5 Calea Mănăştur Street, 400372 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.ORCID 0000-0003-0571-0186
Romina Alina MarcFood Engineering Department, Faculty of Food Science and Technology, University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, 3-5 Calea Mănăştur Street, 400372 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-6409-6019
University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca · ROBahauddin Zakariya University · PKChinese Academy of Sciences · CNHuazhong Agricultural University · CNIslamia College University · PKPersian Gulf University · IRQuaid-i-Azam University · PKUniversity of Okara · PKUniversity of Peshawar · PK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Water, a necessary component of cell protoplasm, plays an essential role in supporting life on Earth; nevertheless, extreme changes in climatic conditions limit water availability, causing numerous issues, such as the current water-scarce regimes in many regions of the biome. This review aims to collect data from various published studies in the literature to understand and critically analyze plants' morphological, growth, yield, and physio-biochemical responses to drought stress and their potential to modulate and nullify the damaging effects of drought stress via activating natural physiological and biochemical mechanisms. In addition, the review described current breakthroughs in understanding how plant hormones influence drought stress responses and phytohormonal interaction through signaling under water stress regimes. The information for this review was systematically gathered from different global search engines and the scientific literature databases Science Direct, including Google Scholar, Web of Science, related studies, published books, and articles. Drought stress is a significant obstacle to meeting food demand for the world's constantly growing population. Plants cope with stress regimes through changes to cellular osmotic potential, water potential, and activation of natural defense systems in the form of antioxidant enzymes and accumulation of osmolytes including proteins, proline, glycine betaine, phenolic compounds, and soluble sugars. Phytohormones modulate developmental processes and signaling networks, which aid in acclimating plants to biotic and abiotic challenges and, consequently, their survival. Significant progress has been made for jasmonates, salicylic acid, and ethylene in identifying important components and understanding their roles in plant responses to abiotic stress. Other plant hormones, such as abscisic acid, auxin, gibberellic acid, brassinosteroids, and peptide hormones, have been linked to plant defense signaling pathways in various ways.

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abiotic stressantioxidant enzymesdrought stressosmolytesphotosynthesisphytohormones

Identifiers

PMID35807572
PMCPMC9269229
OpenAlexW4283277801

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