How do plants remember their stresses?
It was absurd to say plants have memory, but not anymore. Actually, all living organisms on Earth, from bacteria to blue whales, must correctly process and remember critical environmental information to respond to changes in a manner conduc...
Temperature-induced lipocalin is required for basal and acquired thermotolerance in Arabidopsis
Lipocalins are a group of widely distributed proteins, and the plant lipocalins are unique in being temperature-induced. In this paper, we provide direct genetic evidence that the temperature-induced lipocalin (TIL1) is required for basal a...
A Heat-Inducible Transcription Factor, HsfA2, Is Required for Extension of Acquired Thermotolerance in Arabidopsis
The expression of heat shock proteins (Hsps) induced by nonlethal heat treatment confers acquired thermotolerance (AT) to organisms against subsequent challenges of otherwise lethal temperature. After the stress signal is removed, AT gradua...
