Calcium-dependent protein kinases as central hubs in plant abiotic stress signaling: mechanisms and prospects for crop improvement
Samuel Azupio, Yu Wang, Joshua Obeng, Abdul Kadir Issah, Jing Chu, Hongmei Zhang, Qing Xie, Xingyu Jiang · 2026
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Samuel Azupio and co-authors review calcium-sensing kinases as hubs of plant stress defense in a paper whose head dates it 2025. Plants read drought, salt, and heat partly through calcium pulses in their cells. A family of kinases, the CDPKs, decodes those pulses and answers with phosphorylation.
The kinases close leaf pores, balance ions, and switch on defense genes. They also steer antioxidant systems and cross-talk with other signals. Gene family members split the work, some redundant, some stress-specific. That precision suits crop engineering: tune one kinase, harden one trait. The review weighs prospects for breeding tougher crops as climates swing. Stress-proof harvests start with signals like these.
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| CREATOR | Samuel Azupio, Yu Wang, Joshua Obeng, Abdul Kadir Issah, Jing Chu, Hongmei Zhang, Qing Xie, Xingyu Jiang |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 65 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |