Journal
FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY
Volume 36, Issue 8, Pages 696-720Publisher
CSIRO PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1071/FP09047
Keywords
abiotic stress; activation; Arabidopsis; cold; drought; forward genetics; gene; genetic screen; gene tagging; heat stress mutagenesis; osmotic stress; oxidative stress; reverse genetics; salinity; variability
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- OTKA [T-46552, K-68226]
- EU [FP6-020232-2]
- ICGEB-TWAS Program [CRP. PB/URU06-01]
- Biological Research Centre
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Abiotic conditions such as light, temperature, water availability and soil parameters determine plant growth and development. The adaptation of plants to extreme environments or to sudden changes in their growth conditions is controlled by a well balanced, genetically determined signalling system, which is still far from being understood. The identification and characterisation of plant genes which control responses to environmental stresses is an essential step to elucidate the complex regulatory network, which determines stress tolerance. Here, we review the genetic approaches, which have been used with success to identify plant genes which control responses to different abiotic stress factors. We describe strategies and concepts for forward and reverse genetic screens, conventional and insertion mutagenesis, TILLING, gene tagging, promoter trapping, activation mutagenesis and cDNA library transfer. The utility of the various genetic approaches in plant stress research we review is illustrated by several published examples.
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