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Stress Responses

Stress responses are the molecular, physiological, and developmental adjustments by which organisms detect adverse conditions and protect cellular function and survival. In plant biology they encompass reactions to abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, temperature extremes, and oxidative challenge, as well as …

Curated from this journal's research 📚 9 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 136× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2832-5311 🗓 Reviewed October 2026

Overview

Stress responses are the molecular, physiological, and developmental adjustments by which organisms detect adverse conditions and protect cellular function and survival. In plant biology they encompass reactions to abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, temperature extremes, and oxidative challenge, as well as biotic threats, and they operate through signaling cascades, gene-expression reprogramming, and metabolic and structural change. Water deficit and salt stress, for instance, impose osmotic and ionic imbalance on cereal and other crop plants, triggering proteomic and physiological adaptations that influence growth, yield, and tolerance. Regulatory layers beyond protein-coding genes contribute to these responses, including emerging roles for circular RNAs and other non-coding transcripts in modulating plant stress and development. At the cellular level, stress perception activates hormone-mediated pathways, accumulation of protective osmolytes and antioxidants, and changes that stabilize membranes and macromolecules. Studying these mechanisms clarifies how plants sense their environment, allocate resources between growth and defense, and acquire resilience, with direct relevance to breeding and engineering stress-tolerant varieties. Stress responses thus connect the biochemistry of cellular protection to whole-organism adaptation, framing how plants cope with the environmental pressures that constrain productivity and shape developmental outcomes.

Research published in this journal

9 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 9 articles above have been cited 136 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Plant Cell Development (ISSN 2832-5311).

Journal editorial board
Baohong Zhang · United States Badia Malla Obaida · Iraq Kin-Ying To · Taiwan

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