Even resistant trees will succumb to blight, for example, if they cannot adapt to environmental stresses like cold and drought.
Many traits of economic importance are of this type; e.g., height, cold and drought tolerance, time to maturity, and, in particular, yield.
These plants showed enhanced tolerance to cold and drought stresses through phenylpropanoid metabolism and biosynthesis of compatible osmolytes.
Transgenic rice plants overexpressing ZFP245 showed significant tolerance to cold and drought stresses (Huang et al. 2009a).
On the other hand, ROS synthesis is also induced by abiotic stresses, such as cold and drought.
WRKY transcription factors have been implicated in different biological processes such as response to wounding, senescence, development, dormancy, cold and drought tolerance, metabolism and hormone signaling pathways.
The OsWRKY45 2 TF confers broad-spectrum disease resistance in rice but reduces adaptation to salt, cold, and drought stresses (Tao et al. 2009, 2011).
Growth-inhibition is also caused by other abiotic stresses besides wounding, including salinity, cold, and drought.
In plants, ABA accumulates in response to different environmental stresses such as high salt, cold and drought.
The induction of HVA22 under environmental stresses such as ABA, cold and drought has been reported in barley [44].
RAP2.1 transcript accumulated in response to cold and drought stresses.
