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Cytoplasm: ER Stress

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ER Stress and the Environment

Abiotic stresses brought about by drought, heat, freezing, or saline conditions result in some of the greatest crop losses worldwide. The frequency of adverse conditions due to climate change presents serious challenges to global agriculture, which already suffers annual crop losses estimated at billions of dollars (Mittler and Blumwald 2010). Therefore, there is great interest in understanding how plants respond to stress and in endowing crop plants with traits for stress tolerance.

This chapter deals with a type of plant stress called endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. In learning about what plant cells do, the ER is sometimes overlooked – the focus is usually on chloroplasts, mitochondria, nuclei, or cell walls. Nonetheless, the ER is important in stress management because the ER senses abiotic and biotic stresses and responds to them.

The ER plays a key role in many cellular activities because, among other things, the ER is the gateway...

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Howell, S. (2014). Cytoplasm: ER Stress. In: Howell, S. (eds) Molecular Biology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0263-7_9-1

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