Abiotic and biotic stress combinations

Abiotic and biotic stress combinations.

Environmental stress conditions such as drought, heat, salinity, cold, or pathogen infection can have a devastating impact on plant growth and yield under field conditions. Nevertheless, the effects of these stresses on plants are typically being studied under controlled growth conditions in the laboratory. The field environment is very different from the controlled conditions used in laborator...

Biotic/Abiotic Stress-Driven Alzheimer's Disease

WRKY Transcription Factor: Role in Abiotic and Biotic Stress

One of the fundamental behaviors of plants, being sessile allows them to develop an intricate molecular machinery to adapt themselves to biotic and abiotic challenges experienced in the environment. In response to adapt against a particular stress, a massive transcriptional activity of several genes triggered the defense responses in the plant cell. Extensive research on stress related studies ...

Plant Responses to Simultaneous Biotic and Abiotic Stress: Molecular Mechanisms.

Plants are constantly confronted to both abiotic and biotic stresses that seriously reduce their productivity. Plant responses to these stresses are complex and involve numerous physiological, molecular, and cellular adaptations. Recent evidence shows that a combination of abiotic and biotic stress can have a positive effect on plant performance by reducing the susceptibility to biotic stress. ...

The interface between abiotic and biotic stress responses.

Organisms are under strong selection to respond adaptively to environmental stress, even when different stresses occur simultaneously or in rapid succession, as they often do in natural environments. However, at a molecular level, stress responses are often studied in isolation and under controlled growth conditions. This leaves us with an ever-finer picture of single stress responses but littl...