Reverse engineering: a key component of systems biology to unravel global abiotic stress cross-talk.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the global abiotic stress response is an important stepping stone for the development of universal stress tolerance in plants in the era of climate change. Although co-occurrence of several stress factors (abiotic and biotic) in nature is found to be frequent, current attempts are poor to understand the complex physiological processes impacting plant growth under combinatory factors. In this review article, we discuss the recent advances of reverse engineering approaches that led to seminal discoveries of key candidate regulatory genes involved in cross-talk of abiotic stress responses and summarized the available tools of reverse engineering and its relevant application. Among the universally induced regulators involved in various abiotic stress responses, we highlight the i

SUBMITTER: Friedel S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3533172 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature