Coping with abiotic stress: Proteome changes for crop improvement

Isabel A. Abreu, Ana Paula Farinha, Sonia Cabrita Negrao, Nuno Gonçalves, Cátia Fonseca, Mafalda Rodrigues, Rita Batista, Nelson J.M. Saibo, M. Margarida Oliveira*

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Abstract

Plant breeders need new and more precise tools to accelerate breeding programs that address the increasing needs for food, feed, energy and raw materials, while facing a changing environment in which high salinity and drought have major impacts on crop losses worldwide. This review covers the achievements and bottlenecks in the identification and validation of proteins with relevance in abiotic stress tolerance, also mentioning the unexpected consequences of the stress in allergen expression. While addressing the key pathways regulating abiotic stress plant adaptation, comprehensive data is presented on the proteins confirmed as relevant to confer tolerance. Promising candidates still to be confirmed are also highlighted, as well as the specific protein families and protein modifications for which detection and characterization is still a challenge.This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Translational Plant Proteomics.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)145-168
Number of pages24
JournalJournal of Proteomics
Volume93
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 20 2013

Keywords

  • Allergenicity
  • Oxidative stress
  • Photosynthesis and metabolism
  • Protein protection
  • Signal transduction

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biophysics
  • Biochemistry

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