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Aquaporin regulation under salt and osmotic stress in the halophyte mesembryanthemum crystallinum L.
Conference paper

Aquaporin regulation under salt and osmotic stress in the halophyte mesembryanthemum crystallinum L.

Rosario Vera-Estrella, Bronwyn J Barkla, Claudia Gallardo-Amarillas, Hans J Bohnert and Omar Pantoja
Molecular biology and physiology of water and solute transport, pp.339-346
Plenum Publishers
2000

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Abstract

Plant Sciences

It is evident that plant aquaporins should play a dynamic role in maintaining cellular water homeostasis under conditions that necessitate modifications in water flux, including drought- and salt-stress. Changes in water uptake and allocation would be required to balance alterations in cellular osmotic potential and therefore, both plasma membrane and vacuolar membrane (tonoplast) aquaporin activity and/or expression must be tightly regulated.

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