Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Drought Stress, Usman Khalid Chaudhry,Zahide Neslihan Öztürk,Ali Fuat Gökçe, Editör, Springer, London/Berlin , London, ss.295-320, 2025
The increasing susceptibility of plants to various abiotic stresses
adversely affect the plant growth and development as well as productivity of major
crops. Drought has a considerable threat to sustainable agriculture and the global
food security due to global warming and climate change. Drought stress decreases
the plant growth by affecting various physiological and biochemical functions
including photosynthesis, nutrient metabolism, respiration, reactive oxygen species
generation. Several drought stress-responsive genes, playing metabolic or regulatory roles, have been identified and characterized in plants using modern genetics
and genomic approaches including transcriptomics and proteomics. Transcription
factors (TFs), including NAC, WRKY, AP2/ERF, MYB, are regulatory genes that
have important roles in response to stress by regulating the downstream stressresponsive genes. NACs are unique plant TFs and have essential regulatory roles in
abiotic and biotic stress responses, and plant development. The purpose of this
chapter is to summarize the current knowledge of drought stress and function of
NAC transcription factors in response to drought stress in plants. The determination
of NAC function and relationship with other stress-responsive genes in drought
stress will continue to be a major challenge in the coming years.