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Ethylene: Role in Plants Under Environmental Stress

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Ethylene (Et) plays a remarkable role in regulating plant signaling networks involved in responding to multiple biotic and abiotic stresses. Jasmonic (JA) and salicylic (SA) acids are also highly implicated in this scenario. In the last decade, understanding of this complicated puzzle of plant-stress regulation has progressed considerably. This chapter contains the recent progress in the plant adaptation to the most important and investigated hostile environments (e.g., O2-shortage, microorganisms infection, O3, and freezing) and the role of Et in protecting plants from pathogens. It is also highlighted that Et acts via a complex signaling pathway leading to the activation of Ethylene Response Factor (EtRF) genes which represent one of the largest transcription factor families in the plant kingdom. Likewise, other notable components of the Et signal transduction network are also included in this chapter. The contribution of all these different signals is discussed within the context of their role in plant-stress adaptation.

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This work was financially supported by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN, Spain) Grant CGL2009-11425. M.A.M-V was supported by the EU Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship for Career Development (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF) grant number 298003. The authors wish to apologize to all those scientists whose manuscripts have not been directly mentioned. The authors thank Dr. J. Ludwig-Müller for providing Fig. 7.1. We wish to thank Dr. J.C. Mortimer (Department of Biochemistry, Hopkins Building, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QW, UK) for critical reading of the manuscript and the language polishing.

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Matilla-Vázquez, M.A., Matilla, A.J. (2014). Ethylene: Role in Plants Under Environmental Stress. In: Ahmad, P., Wani, M. (eds) Physiological Mechanisms and Adaptation Strategies in Plants Under Changing Environment. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8600-8_7

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