Abscisic acid (ABA) is one of the “classical” plant hormones, ie discovered at least 50 years
ago, that regulates many aspects of plant growth and development. This chapter reviews our …

Drought is one of the abiotic stresses which impairs the plant growth/development and
restricts the yield of many crops throughout the world. Stomatal closure is a common …

Myo-inositol is a versatile compound that generates diversified derivatives upon
phosphorylation by lipid-dependent and-independent pathways. Phosphatidylinositols form …

Since the discovery of the phosphoinositide/phospholipase C (PI/PLC) system in animal
systems, we know that phospholipids are much more then just structural components of …

Manual evaluation of cellular structures is a popular approach in cell biological studies.
However, such approaches are laborious and are prone to error, especially when large …

As an important metabolic pathway, phosphatidylinositol metabolism generates both
constitutive and signalling molecules that are crucial for plant growth and development …

The modulation of guard cell function is the basis of stomatal closure, essential for
optimizing water use and CO2 uptake by leaves. Nitric oxide (NO) in guard cells plays a very …

Collective evidence from agricultural practices and from scientific research has
demonstrated that plants can alter their phenotypic responses to repeated biotic and abiotic …

Increasing grain sink strength by improving assimilate uptake capacity could be a promising
approach toward getting higher yield. The barley (Hordeum vulgare) sucrose transporter …

The root hair is a model system for understanding plant cell tip growth. As
phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate [PtdIns (3) P] has been shown in other plant cell types to …