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Abiotic Stress-Mediated Sensing and Signaling in Plants: An Omics Perspective pp 183–205Cite as

Abiotic Stress Response in Plants:A Cis-Regulatory Perspective

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The growth and development of plant are adversely affected due to various abiotic stresses such as cold, heat, drought, salinity, heavy metal, hypoxia, etc. Plant adaptation to the stress conditions is brought out by changes in its physiological parameters which have underlying molecular basis. Multiple signalling pathways are activated in response to particular stress which are often complex and work through a network of trans- and cis-regulatory factors. In the following chapter, we summarize the current understanding of cis-regulatory factors, viz. promoters and transcription factor binding motifs, which are responsible for relaying signals during anabiotic signalling cascade ultimately preventing and mitigating the ill effect of climatic conditions on plant growth and survival.

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Research in our laboratory on plant promoters has received financial support from DBT, Government of India (grant number BT/PR14532/AGR/36/673/2010), and UGC, Government of India (grant number 40-170/2011(SR). Research grant received from the University of Delhi through Research and Development (R&D) grant is also acknowledged. AJ and GJ are thankful to UGC for financial support in the form of JRF and SRF; CC acknowledges DBT for financial support as JRF/SRF.

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Jain, A., Joshi, G., Chauhan, C., Das, S. (2018). Abiotic Stress Response in Plants:A Cis-Regulatory Perspective. In: Zargar, S., Zargar, M. (eds) Abiotic Stress-Mediated Sensing and Signaling in Plants: An Omics Perspective. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7479-0_6

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