Research on plant abiotic stress responses in the post‐genome era: past, present and future

Europe-wide reduction in primary productivity caused by the heat and drought in 2003

Ciais, P., Reichstein, M., Viovy, N., Granier, A., Ogée, J., Allard, V., Aubinet, M., Buchmann, N., Bernhofer, C., Carrara, A., et al. (2005) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature03972 · Cited by 4,153

Abiotic stress, the field environment and stress combination

Mittler, R. (2006) · Trends in Plant Science · doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2005.11.002 · Cited by 3,083

Abscisic Acid Inhibits Type 2C Protein Phosphatases via the PYR/PYL Family of START Proteins

Park, S., Fung, P., Nishimura, N., Jensen, D. R., Fujii, H., Zhao, Y., Lumba, S., Santiago, J., Rodrigues, A., Chow, T.-F. F., et al. (2009) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1173041 · Cited by 2,986

TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATORY NETWORKS IN CELLULAR RESPONSES AND TOLERANCE TO DEHYDRATION AND COLD STRESSES

Yamaguchi‐Shinozaki, K., & Shinozaki, K. (2006) · Annual Review of Plant Biology · doi:10.1146/annurev.arplant.57.032905.105444 · Cited by 2,935

Salinity tolerance in halophytes*

Flowers, T. J., & Colmer, T. D. (2008) · New Phytologist · doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02531.x · Cited by 2,789

The complex language of chromatin regulation during transcription

Berger, S. L. (2007) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature05915 · Cited by 2,768

MicroRNAs AND THEIR REGULATORY ROLES IN PLANTS

Jones-Rhoades, M. W., Bartel, D. P., & Bartel, B. (2006) · Annual Review of Plant Biology · doi:10.1146/annurev.arplant.57.032905.105218 · Cited by 2,720

Gene networks involved in drought stress response and tolerance

Shinozaki, K., & Yamaguchi‐Shinozaki, K. (2006) · Journal of Experimental Botany · doi:10.1093/jxb/erl164 · Cited by 2,641

Drought and Salt Tolerance in Plants

Bartels, D., & Sunkar, R. (2005) · Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences · doi:10.1080/07352680590910410 · Cited by 2,611

Regulators of PP2C Phosphatase Activity Function as Abscisic Acid Sensors

Ma, Y., Szostkiewicz, I., Korte, A., Moes, D., Yang, Y., Christmann, A., & Grill, E. (2009) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1172408 · Cited by 2,467

Networking by small-molecule hormones in plant immunity

Pieterse, C. M. J., León-Reyes, A., der Ent, S. V., & Wees, S. C. M. V. (2009) · Nature Chemical Biology · doi:10.1038/nchembio.164 · Cited by 2,382

Arabidopsis AtMYC2 (bHLH) and AtMYB2 (MYB) Function as Transcriptional Activators in Abscisic Acid Signaling

Abe, H., Urao, T., Ito, T., Seki, M., Shinozaki, K., & Yamaguchi‐Shinozaki, K. (2002) · The Plant Cell · doi:10.1105/tpc.006130 · Cited by 2,272

ABSCISIC ACID BIOSYNTHESIS AND CATABOLISM

Nambara, E., & Marion‐Poll, A. (2005) · Annual Review of Plant Biology · doi:10.1146/annurev.arplant.56.032604.144046 · Cited by 2,246

Improving crop salt tolerance

Flowers, T. J. (2004) · Journal of Experimental Botany · doi:10.1093/jxb/erh003 · Cited by 2,132

Plant Stomata Function in Innate Immunity against Bacterial Invasion

Melotto, M., Underwood, W. R., Koczan, J. M., Nomura, K., & He, S. Y. (2006) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2006.06.054 · Cited by 1,988

Novel and Stress-Regulated MicroRNAs and Other Small RNAs from Arabidopsis[W]

Sunkar, R., & Zhu, J. (2004) · The Plant Cell · doi:10.1105/tpc.104.022830 · Cited by 1,936

Crosstalk between abiotic and biotic stress responses: a current view from the points of convergence in the stress signaling networks

Fujita, M., Fujita, Y., Noutoshi, Y., Takahashi, F., Narusaka, Y., Yamaguchi‐Shinozaki, K., & Shinozaki, K. (2006) · Current Opinion in Plant Biology · doi:10.1016/j.pbi.2006.05.014 · Cited by 1,834

Regulatory network of gene expression in the drought and cold stress responses

Shinozaki, K., Yamaguchi‐Shinozaki, K., & Seki, M. (2003) · Current Opinion in Plant Biology · doi:10.1016/s1369-5266(03)00092-x · Cited by 1,780

ICE1: a regulator of cold-induced transcriptome and freezing tolerance in ArabidopsisPreprint

Chinnusamy, V., Ohta, M., Kanrar, S., Lee, B., Hong, X., Agarwal, M., & Zhu, J. (2003) · Genes & Development · doi:10.1101/gad.1077503 · Cited by 1,669

A central integrator of transcription networks in plant stress and energy signalling

Gonzalez, E. B., Rolland, F., Thevelein, J. M., & Sheen, J. (2007) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature06069 · Cited by 1,526

Isolation and Functional Analysis of Arabidopsis Stress-Inducible NAC Transcription Factors That Bind to a Drought-Responsivecis-Element in theearly responsive to dehydration stress 1Promoter[W]

Tran, L. P., Nakashima, K., Sakuma, Y., Simpson, S. D., Fujita, Y., Maruyama, K., Fujita, M., Seki, M., Shinozaki, K., & Yamaguchi‐Shinozaki, K. (2004) · The Plant Cell · doi:10.1105/tpc.104.022699 · Cited by 1,514

A rice quantitative trait locus for salt tolerance encodes a sodium transporter

Ren, Z., Gao, J., Li, L., Cai, X., Huang, W., Chao, D., Zhu, M., Wang, Z., Luan, S., & Lin, H. (2005) · Nature Genetics · doi:10.1038/ng1643 · Cited by 1,503

The AtGenExpress global stress expression data set: protocols, evaluation and model data analysis of UV‐B light, drought and cold stress responses

Kilian, J., Whitehead, D., Horak, J., Wanke, D., Weinl, S., Batistič, O., D’Angelo, C., Bornberg‐Bauer, E., Kudla, J., & Harter, K. (2007) · The Plant Journal · doi:10.1111/j.1365-313x.2007.03052.x · Cited by 1,420

Arabidopsis basic leucine zipper transcription factors involved in an abscisic acid-dependent signal transduction pathway under drought and high-salinity conditions

Uno, Y., Furihata, T., Abe, H., Yoshida, R., Shinozaki, K., & Yamaguchi‐Shinozaki, K. (2000) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.190309197 · Cited by 1,371

In vitro reconstitution of an abscisic acid signalling pathway

Fujii, H., Chinnusamy, V., Rodrigues, A., Rubio, S., Antoni, R., Park, S., Cutler, S. R., Sheen, J., Rodrı́guez, P. L., & Zhu, J. (2009) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature08599 · Cited by 1,347

The ubiquitin–26S proteasome system at the nexus of plant biology

Vierstra, R. D. (2009) · Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology · doi:10.1038/nrm2688 · Cited by 1,343

Mitogen-activated protein kinase cascades in plants: a new nomenclature

MAPK Group, Ichimura, K., Shinozaki, K., Tena, G., Sheen, J., Henry, Y., Champion, A., Kreis, M. E., Zhang, S., Heribert Hirt, A., et al. (2002) · Trends in Plant Science · doi:10.1016/s1360-1385(02)02302-6 · Cited by 1,265

The Many Pathways of RNA Degradation

Houseley, J. M., & Tollervey, D. W. (2009) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2009.01.019 · Cited by 1,220

ABFs, a Family of ABA-responsive Element Binding Factors

Choi, H.-I., Hong, J.-H., Ha, J.-O., Kang, J., & Kim, S. Y. (2000) · Journal of Biological Chemistry · doi:10.1074/jbc.275.3.1723 · Cited by 1,212

Epigenetic regulation of stress responses in plants

Chinnusamy, V., & Zhu, J. (2009) · Current Opinion in Plant Biology · doi:10.1016/j.pbi.2008.12.006 · Cited by 1,164

Endogenous siRNAs Derived from a Pair of Natural cis-Antisense Transcripts Regulate Salt Tolerance in Arabidopsis

Borsani, O., Zhu, J., Verslues, P. E., Sunkar, R., & Zhu, J. (2005) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2005.11.035 · Cited by 1,125

Type 2C protein phosphatases directly regulate abscisic acid-activated protein kinases in Arabidopsis

Umezawa, T., Sugiyama, N., Mizoguchi, M., Hayashi, S., Myouga, F., Yamaguchi‐Shinozaki, K., Ishihama, Y., Hirayama, T., & Shinozaki, K. (2009) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0907095106 · Cited by 1,110

The Arabidopsis CDPK-SnRK Superfamily of Protein Kinases

Hrabak, E. M., Chan, C. W. M., Gribskov, M., Harper, J. F., Choi, J. H., Halford, N. G., Kudla, J., Luan, S., Nimmo, H. G., Sussman, M. R., et al. (2003) · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY · doi:10.1104/pp.102.011999 · Cited by 1,080

Exploring the Temperature-Stress Metabolome of Arabidopsis

Kaplan, F., Kopka, J., Haskell, D. W., Zhao, W., Schiller, K., Gatzke, N., Sung, D. Y., & Guy, C. L. (2004) · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY · doi:10.1104/pp.104.052142 · Cited by 1,077

The MKK2 Pathway Mediates Cold and Salt Stress Signaling in Arabidopsis

Teige, M., Scheikl, E., Eulgem, T., Dóczi, R., Ichimura, K., Shinozaki, K., Dangl, J. L., & Hirt, H. (2004) · Molecular Cell · doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2004.06.023 · Cited by 1,002

Recent advances and emerging trends in plant hormone signalling

Santner, A., & Estelle, M. (2009) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature08122 · Cited by 960

Small RNAs as big players in plant abiotic stress responses and nutrient deprivation

Sunkar, R., Chinnusamy, V., Zhu, J., & Zhu, J.-K. (2007) · Trends in Plant Science · doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2007.05.001 · Cited by 935

The multifaceted role of ABA in disease resistance

Ton, J., Flors, V., & Mauch‐Mani, B. (2009) · Trends in Plant Science · doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2009.03.006 · Cited by 914

Arabidopsis mutant deficient in 3 abscisic acid-activated protein kinases reveals critical roles in growth, reproduction, and stress

Fujii, H., & Zhu, J. (2009) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0903144106 · Cited by 885

Empirical Analysis of Transcriptional Activity in the Arabidopsis Genome

Yamada, K., Lim, J., Dale, J. M., Chen, H., Shinn, P., Palm, C. J., Southwick, A. M., Wu, H. C., Kim, C., Nguyen, M., et al. (2003) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1088305 · Cited by 882

Heat Stress Phenotypes of Arabidopsis Mutants Implicate Multiple Signaling Pathways in the Acquisition of Thermotolerance

Larkindale, J., Hall, J. D., Knight, M. R., & Vierling, E. (2005) · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY · doi:10.1104/pp.105.062257 · Cited by 859

Abscisic acid-dependent multisite phosphorylation regulates the activity of a transcription activator AREB1

Furihata, T., Maruyama, K., Fujita, Y., Umezawa, T., Yoshida, R., Shinozaki, K., & Yamaguchi‐Shinozaki, K. (2006) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0505667103 · Cited by 849

Three Arabidopsis SnRK2 Protein Kinases, SRK2D/SnRK2.2, SRK2E/SnRK2.6/OST1 and SRK2I/SnRK2.3, Involved in ABA Signaling are Essential for the Control of Seed Development and Dormancy

Nakashima, K., Fujita, Y., Kanamori, N., Katagiri, T., Umezawa, T., Kidokoro, S., Maruyama, K., Yoshida, T., Ishiyama, K., Kobayashi, M., et al. (2009) · Plant and Cell Physiology · doi:10.1093/pcp/pcp083 · Cited by 809

Engineering drought tolerance in plants: discovering and tailoring genes to unlock the future

Umezawa, T., Fujita, M., Fujita, Y., Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, K., & Shinozaki, K. (2006) · Current Opinion in Biotechnology · doi:10.1016/j.copbio.2006.02.002 · Cited by 802

Roles of the CBF2 and ZAT12 transcription factors in configuring the low temperature transcriptome of Arabidopsis

Vogel, J. T., Zarka, D. G., Buskirk, H. A. V., Fowler, S., & Thomashow, M. F. (2004) · The Plant Journal · doi:10.1111/j.1365-313x.2004.02288.x · Cited by 779

Cell Identity Mediates the Response of Arabidopsis Roots to Abiotic Stress

Dinneny, J. R., Long, T. A., Wang, J. Y., Jung, J. W., Mace, D., Pointer, S., Barron, C., Brady, S. M., Schiefelbein, J., & Benfey, P. N. (2008) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1153795 · Cited by 746

The diversity of RNA silencing pathways in plants

Brodersen, P., & Voinnet, O. (2006) · Trends in Genetics · doi:10.1016/j.tig.2006.03.003 · Cited by 733

Omics-based identification of Arabidopsis Myb transcription factors regulating aliphatic glucosinolate biosynthesis

Hirai, M. Y., Sugiyama, K., Sawada, Y., Tohge, T., Obayashi, T., Suzuki, A., Araki, R., Sakurai, N., Suzuki, H., Aoki, K., et al. (2007) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0611629104 · Cited by 732

A gate–latch–lock mechanism for hormone signalling by abscisic acid receptors

Melcher, K., Ng, L.-M., Zhou, X. E., Soon, F.-F., Xu, Y., Suino-Powell, K. M., Park, S.-Y., Weiner, J. J., Fujii, H., Chinnusamy, V., et al. (2009) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature08613 · Cited by 731

The negative regulator of plant cold responses, HOS1, is a RING E3 ligase that mediates the ubiquitination and degradation of ICE1

Dong, C., Agarwal, M., Zhang, Y., Xie, Q., & Zhu, J. (2006) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0602874103 · Cited by 710

On the road to reading the RNA-interference code

Siomi, H., & Siomi, M. C. (2009) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature07754 · Cited by 699

Roles for Arabidopsis CAMTA Transcription Factors in Cold-Regulated Gene Expression and Freezing Tolerance

Doherty, C. J., Buskirk, H. A. V., Myers, S. J., & Thomashow, M. F. (2009) · The Plant Cell · doi:10.1105/tpc.108.063958 · Cited by 697

A prominent role for the CBF cold response pathway in configuring the low-temperature metabolome of Arabidopsis

Cook, D., Fowler, S., Fiehn, O., & Thomashow, M. F. (2004) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0406069101 · Cited by 692

Activation of Glucosidase via Stress-Induced Polymerization Rapidly Increases Active Pools of Abscisic Acid

Lee, K. H., Piao, H. L., Kim, H., Choi, S. M., Jiang, F., Hartung, W., Hwang, I., Kwak, J. M., Lee, I., & Hwang, I. (2006) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2006.07.034 · Cited by 688

Emerging MAP kinase pathways in plant stress signalling

Nakagami, H., Pitzschke, A., & Hirt, H. (2005) · Trends in Plant Science · doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2005.05.009 · Cited by 676

Functional analysis of AHK1/ATHK1 and cytokinin receptor histidine kinases in response to abscisic acid, drought, and salt stress in Arabidopsis

Tran, L. P., Urao, T., Qin, F., Maruyama, K., Kakimoto, T., Shinozaki, K., & Yamaguchi‐Shinozaki, K. (2007) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0706547105 · Cited by 665

Two Calcium-Dependent Protein Kinases, CPK4 and CPK11, Regulate Abscisic Acid Signal Transduction inArabidopsis

Zhu, S., Yu, X., Wang, X., Zhao, R., Li, Y., Fan, R., Shang, Y., Du, S., Wang, X., Wu, F., et al. (2007) · The Plant Cell · doi:10.1105/tpc.107.050666 · Cited by 642

CDPKs CPK6 and CPK3 Function in ABA Regulation of Guard Cell S-Type Anion- and Ca2+- Permeable Channels and Stomatal Closure

Mori, I. C., Murata, Y., Yang, Y., Munemasa, S., Wang, Y., Andreoli, S., Tiriac, H., Alonso, J. M., Harper, J. F., Ecker, J. R., et al. (2006) · PLoS Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040327 · Cited by 630

Comparative Genomics in Salt Tolerance between Arabidopsis and Arabidopsis-Related Halophyte Salt Cress Using Arabidopsis Microarray

Taji, T., Seki, M., Satou, M., Sakurai, T., Kobayashi, M., Ishiyama, K., Narusaka, Y., Narusaka, M., Zhu, J., & Shinozaki, K. (2004) · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY · doi:10.1104/pp.104.039909 · Cited by 595

The CBL–CIPK network in plant calcium signaling

Luan, S. (2008) · Trends in Plant Science · doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2008.10.005 · Cited by 594

Structural basis of abscisic acid signalling

Miyazono, K., Miyakawa, T., Sawano, Y., Kubota, K., Kang, H., Asano, A., Miyauchi, Y., Takahashi, M., Zhi, Y., Fujita, Y., et al. (2009) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature08583 · Cited by 578

Antagonistic Interaction between Systemic Acquired Resistance and the Abscisic Acid–Mediated Abiotic Stress Response in Arabidopsis

Yasuda, M., Ishikawa, A., Jikumaru, Y., Seki, M., Umezawa, T., Asami, T., Maruyama, A., Kudo, T., Shinozaki, K., Yoshida, S., et al. (2008) · The Plant Cell · doi:10.1105/tpc.107.054296 · Cited by 566

Genomewide comparative analysis of alternative splicing in plants

Wang, B., & Brendel, V. (2006) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0602039103 · Cited by 563

Protein Phosphatases 2C Regulate the Activation of the Snf1-Related Kinase OST1 by Abscisic Acid in Arabidopsis

Vlad, F., Rubio, S., Rodrigues, A., Sirichandra, C., Belin, C., Robert, N., Leung, J., Rodrı́guez, P. L., Laurière, C., & Merlot, S. (2009) · The Plant Cell · doi:10.1105/tpc.109.069179 · Cited by 551

So What's New in the Field of Plant Cold Acclimation? Lots!

Thomashow, M. F. (2001) · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY · doi:10.1104/pp.125.1.89 · Cited by 546

SCREAM/ICE1 and SCREAM2 Specify Three Cell-State Transitional Steps Leading to Arabidopsis Stomatal Differentiation

Kanaoka, M. M., Pillitteri, L. J., Fujii, H., Yoshida, Y., Bogenschutz, N. L., Takabayashi, J., Zhu, J., & Torii, K. U. (2008) · The Plant Cell · doi:10.1105/tpc.108.060848 · Cited by 546

Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato hijacks the Arabidopsis abscisic acid signalling pathway to cause disease

Zabala, M. D. T., Truman, W., Bennett, M. H., Lafforgue, G., Mansfıeld, J. W., Rodrı́guez, P. L., Bögre, L., & Grant, M. (2007) · The EMBO Journal · doi:10.1038/sj.emboj.7601575 · Cited by 544

The abscisic acid receptor PYR1 in complex with abscisic acid

Santiago, J., Dupeux, F., Round, A. R., Antoni, R., Park, S., Jamin, M., Cutler, S. R., Rodrı́guez, P. L., & Márquez, J. A. (2009) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature08591 · Cited by 543

Salinity stress adaptation competence in the extremophile Thellungiella halophila in comparison with its relative Arabidopsis thaliana

Gong, Q., Li, P., Ma, S., Rupassara, S. I., & Bohnert, H. J. (2005) · The Plant Journal · doi:10.1111/j.1365-313x.2005.02587.x · Cited by 532

Arabidopsis DREB2A-Interacting Proteins Function as RING E3 Ligases and Negatively Regulate Plant Drought Stress–Responsive Gene Expression

Qin, F., Sakuma, Y., Tran, L. P., Maruyama, K., Kidokoro, S., Fujita, Y., Fujita, M., Umezawa, T., Sawano, Y., Miyazono, K., et al. (2008) · The Plant Cell · doi:10.1105/tpc.107.057380 · Cited by 528

Alternative Splicing of Pre-Messenger RNAs in Plants in the Genomic Era

Reddy, A. S. N. (2007) · Annual Review of Plant Biology · doi:10.1146/annurev.arplant.58.032806.103754 · Cited by 522

Arabidopsis Transcriptome Analysis under Drought, Cold, High-Salinity and ABA Treatment Conditions using a Tiling Array

Matsui, A., Ishida, J.-Y., Morosawa, T., Mochizuki, Y., Kaminuma, E., Endo, T. A., Okamoto, M., Nambara, E., Nakajima, M., Kawashima, M., et al. (2008) · Plant and Cell Physiology · doi:10.1093/pcp/pcn101 · Cited by 509

Identification of Nine Sucrose Nonfermenting 1-related Protein Kinases 2 Activated by Hyperosmotic and Saline Stresses in Arabidopsis thaliana

Boudsocq, M., Barbier‐Brygoo, H., & Laurière, C. (2004) · Journal of Biological Chemistry · doi:10.1074/jbc.m405259200 · Cited by 499

Perception and transduction of abscisic acid signals: keys to the function of the versatile plant hormone ABA

Hirayama, T., & Shinozaki, K. (2007) · Trends in Plant Science · doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2007.06.013 · Cited by 497

Structural Mechanism of Abscisic Acid Binding and Signaling by Dimeric PYR1

Nishimura, N., Hitomi, K., Arvai, A. S., Rambo, R. P., Hitomi, C., Cutler, S. R., Schroeder, J. I., & Getzoff, E. D. (2009) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1181829 · Cited by 494

DECODING Ca 2+ SIGNALS THROUGH PLANT PROTEIN KINASES

Harper, J. F., Breton, G., & Harmon, A. C. (2004) · Annual Review of Plant Biology · doi:10.1146/annurev.arplant.55.031903.141627 · Cited by 492

An Update on Abscisic Acid Signaling in Plants and More …

Wasilewska, A., Vlad, F., Sirichandra, C., Redko, Y., Jammes, F., Valon, C., Frey, N. F. D., & Leung, J. (2008) · Molecular Plant · doi:10.1093/mp/ssm022 · Cited by 491

Elucidation of Gene-to-Gene and Metabolite-to-Gene Networks inArabidopsis by Integration of Metabolomics andTranscriptomics

Hirai, M. Y., Klein, M., Fujikawa, Y., Yano, M., Goodenowe, D. B., Yamazaki, Y., Kanaya, S., Nakamura, Y. K., Kitayama, M., Suzuki, H., et al. (2005) · Journal of Biological Chemistry · doi:10.1074/jbc.m502332200 · Cited by 481

Molecular players regulating the jasmonate signalling network

Lorenzo, Ó., & Solano, R. (2005) · Current Opinion in Plant Biology · doi:10.1016/j.pbi.2005.07.003 · Cited by 476

Abscisic acid‐activated SNRK2 protein kinases function in the gene‐regulation pathway of ABA signal transduction by phosphorylating ABA response element‐binding factors

Kobayashi, Y., Murata, M., Minami, H., Yamamoto, S., Kagaya, Y., Hobo, T., Yamamoto, A., & Hattori, T. (2005) · The Plant Journal · doi:10.1111/j.1365-313x.2005.02583.x · Cited by 472

Epigenetic regulation of transposable elements in plants

Lisch, D. (2009) · Annual Review of Plant Biology · doi:10.1146/annurev.arplant.59.032607.092744 · Cited by 469

Global Switches and Fine-Tuning—ABA Modulates Plant Pathogen Defense

Asselbergh, B., Vleesschauwer, D. D., & Höfte, M. (2008) · Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions · doi:10.1094/mpmi-21-6-0709 · Cited by 465

Genetic approaches to crop improvement: responding to environmental and population changes

Takeda, S., & Matsuoka, M. (2008) · Nature Reviews Genetics · doi:10.1038/nrg2342 · Cited by 463

Two Novel GPCR-Type G Proteins Are Abscisic Acid Receptors in Arabidopsis

Pandey, S., Nelson, D. C., & Assmann, S. M. (2009) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2008.12.026 · Cited by 455

Salt Cress. A Halophyte and Cryophyte Arabidopsis Relative Model System and Its Applicability to Molecular Genetic Analyses of Growth and Development of Extremophiles

Inan, G., Zhang, Q., Li, P., Wang, Z., Cao, Z., Zhang, H., Zhang, C., Quist, T. M., Goodwin, S. M., Zhu, J., et al. (2004) · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY · doi:10.1104/pp.104.041723 · Cited by 441

Hormone (Dis)harmony Moulds Plant Health and Disease

Grant, M., & Jones, J. D. G. (2009) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1173771 · Cited by 439

Plant metabolomics: towards biological function and mechanism

Schauer, N., & Fernie, A. R. (2006) · Trends in Plant Science · doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2006.08.007 · Cited by 436

CDPK-mediated signalling pathways: specificity and cross-talk

Ludwig, A. A. (2003) · Journal of Experimental Botany · doi:10.1093/jxb/erh008 · Cited by 433

Arabidopsis plasma membrane protein crucial for Ca 2+ influx and touch sensing in roots

Nakagawa, Y., Katagiri, T., Shinozaki, K., Qi, Z., Tatsumi, H., Furuichi, T., Kishigami, A., Sokabe, M., Kojima, I., Sato, S., et al. (2007) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0607703104 · Cited by 406

Calcium- and salt-stress signaling in plants: Shedding light on SOS pathway

Mahajan, S., Pandey, G. K., & Tuteja, N. K. (2008) · Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics · doi:10.1016/j.abb.2008.01.010 · Cited by 398

Arabidopsis Calcium-Dependent Protein Kinase AtCPK32 Interacts with ABF4, a Transcriptional Regulator of Abscisic Acid-Responsive Gene Expression, and Modulates Its Activity

Choi, H.-I., Park, H.-J., Park, J. H., Kim, S., Im, M.-Y., Seo, H.-H., Kim, Y.-W., Hwang, I., & Kim, S. Y. (2005) · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY · doi:10.1104/pp.105.069757 · Cited by 361

Abscisic Acid Has a Key Role in Modulating Diverse Plant-Pathogen Interactions

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