Journal Article

Tackling Drought Stress: RECEPTOR-LIKE KINASES Present New Approaches

Grossniklaus, U, Butenko, M.A, Biological Science Research Council (BBSRC) [BB_BB/H022457/1, BB/G013969/1]; Marie Curie European Reintegration Grant [PERG06-GA-2009-256354]; Centre for BioSystems Genomics, Netherlands Genomics Initiative/Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research; Horizon grant, Netherlands Genomics Initiative/Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research [050-71-054]; Marie-Curie Initial Training Network Bravissimo [PITN-GA-2008-215118, FP7-1-215118-2]; Spanish Ministry of Education and Science [BIO2008/00505]; Research Council of Norway [204756/F20]; Interuniversity Attraction Poles Programme [IUAP VI/33]; Belgian State, Science Policy Office; Human Frontier Science Program Organisation; Max Planck Society; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinshaft; Bundesministerium fur Ernahrung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz; EuroCORES program; Gatsby Charitable Foundation, Écophysiologie des Plantes sous Stress environnementaux (LEPSE) ; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomiq

2012

Overview

Global climate change and a growing population require tackling the reduction in arable land and improving biomass production and seed yield per area under varying conditions. One of these conditions is suboptimal water availability. Here, we review some of the classical approaches to dealing with plant response to drought stress and we evaluate how research on RECEPTOR-LIKE KINASES (RLKs) can contribute to improving plant performance under drought stress. RLKs are considered as key regulators of plant architecture and growth behavior, but they also function in defense and stress responses. The available literature and analyses of available transcript profiling data indeed suggest that RLKs can play an important role in optimizing plant responses to drought stress. In addition, RLK pathways are ideal targets for nontransgenic approaches, such as synthetic molecules, providing a novel strategy to manipulate their activity and supporting translational studies from model species, such as Arabidopsis thaliana, to economically useful crops.

• Publisher: American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB),CCSD,American Society of Plant Biologists
• Subject: abiotic stress / Agricultural land / Arabidopsis - physiology / Arabidopsis thaliana / arable soils / biomass production / brassica-napus / brassinosteroid signal-transduction / Climate change / Corn / Crop yield / crops / Drought / Drought tolerance / Droughts / Gene Expression Regulation, Plant / gene-expression / Global climate / improves drought / lateral root development / length cdna microarray / Life Sciences / Ligands / molecular interaction database / Molecules / PERSPECTIVE / phosphotransferases (kinases) / plant architecture / Plant cells / Plant growth regulators / Plant Growth Regulators - chemistry / Plant Growth Regulators - metabolism / Plant Physiological Phenomena / plant response / Plants / Protein Biosynthesis / Protein Kinases - physiology / Receptors / Research Design / Rice / seed yield / stress response / Stress, Physiological / transcriptomics / translation (genetics) / Vegetal Biology / Water availability / water stress / water-limited conditions
• ISBN: 0003069193000