Growth attenuation under saline stress is mediated by the heterotrimeric G protein complex.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Plant growth is plastic, able to rapidly adjust to fluctuation in environmental conditions such as drought and salinity. Due to long-term irrigation use in agricultural systems, soil salinity is increasing; consequently crop yield is adversely affected. It is known that salt tolerance is a quantitative trait supported by genes affecting ion homeostasis, ion transport, ion compartmentalization and ion selectivity. Less is known about pathways connecting NaCl and cell proliferation and cell death. Plant growth and cell proliferation is, in part, controlled by the concerted activity of the heterotrimeric G-protein complex with glucose. Prompted by the abundance of stress-related, functional annotations of genes encoding proteins that interact with core components of the Ara

SUBMITTER: Colaneri AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4061919 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature