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All organisms are exposed to different stress conditions in their natural environment. Particularly in plants, survival and yield are strongly influenced by environmental conditions. The response to heat stress is a model for acquisition of thermotolerance and it may also apply for the development of common stress tolerance of cells and organisms. The knowledge gained in recent years about stress signal transfer and regulation of gene expression led also to the first successes in changing stress tolerance traits in transgenic plants. This paper deals with the central role of the heat shock transcription factors in the signal transfer, the regulation of the heat shock response and the development of thermotolerance.
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Prändl, R., Lohmann, C., Döhr, S., Schöffl, F. (2001). The Role of HSF in Heat Shock Signal Transduction and Heat Shock Response in Plants. In: Sopory, S.K., Oelmüller, R., Maheshwari, S.C. (eds) Signal Transduction in Plants. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1365-0_22
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