Post-transcriptional and post-translational regulations of drought and heat response in plants: A spider’s web of mechanisms

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Guerra, Davide ^a   Crosatti, Cristina ^a   Khoshro, Hamid H ^b   Mastrangelo, Anna M ^a   Mica, Erica ^a   Mazzucotelli, Elisabetta ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^b ILAM UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Drought stress; Heat stress; miRNA mediated gene silencing; Stress tolerance; Sumoylation; Ubiquitination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923226076     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00057     Document Type: Review

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