Preface - Special Issue on: "Molecular Genetics and Genomics Approaches to Biotic and Abiotic Stress in Model and Complex Organisms"

HİKMET BUDAK, LUIGI CATTIVELLI, GERMAN SPANGENBERG

Genetic improvement of rice for biotic and abiotic stress tolerance

MAHMOOD UR RAHMAN ANSARI, Tayyaba SHAHEEN, SHAZAI BUKHARI, TAYYAB HUSNAIN

Recent advances in potato genomics, transcriptomics, and transgenicsunder drought and heat stresses: a review

Emre AKSOY, Ufuk DEMİREL, Zahide Neslihan ÖZTÜRK, Sevgi ÇALIŞKAN, Mehmet Emin ÇALIŞKAN

Field assessment of CaMsrB2 transgenic lines in a drought stress environment

Zamin Shaheed SIDDIQUI, Jung İl CHO, Dan-be PARK, Gang-seob LEE, Tae-hun RYU, Huda SHAHID, Muhammad UMAR, Soo-chul PARK

Metabolic and molecular-genetic regulation of proline signaling and itscross-talk with major effectors mediates abiotic stress tolerance in plants

ARYADEEP ROYCHOUDHURY, ADITYA BANERJEE, VIKRAMJIT LAHIRI

A comparative analysis of membrane intactness and genome integrity in pea,barley, and wheat in response to UVC irradiation

Mariyana GEORGIEVA, İvelina NIKOLOVA, Georgi BONCHEV, Zornitsa KATEROVA, Dessislava TODOROVA

Application of data analysis in cold stress: a case study of Nicotiana benthamiana

İbrahim KOÇ, Zihni Onur ÇALIŞKANER, Ertuğrul FİLİZ

Ameliorative role of ß-estradiol against lead-induced oxidative stressand genotoxic damage in germinating wheat seedlings

Mucip GENİŞEL, Hülya TÜRK, Serkan ERDAL, Yavuz DEMİR, Ebru GENÇ, İrfan TERZİ

Overexpression of a soybean expansin gene, GmEXP1, improvesdrought tolerance in transgenic tobacco

Thanh Son LO, Hoang Duc LE, Vu Thanh Thanh NGUYEN, Hoang Ha CHU, Van Son LE, Hoang Mau CHU

Evaluation of metabolite extraction protocols and determination ofphysiological response to drought stress via reporter metabolites in model plant Brachypodium distachyon

Özge TATLI, İlkem Emrah NİKEREL, Bahar Soğutmaz ÖZDEMİR

Screening of PvLEA3 gene mRNA expression levels with qRT-PCR in differentbean varieties (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) subjected to salt and drought stress

İlker BÜYÜK, Sümer ARAS

Expression profiling of PAP3, BZIP, and P5CS genes in soybean underdrought stress conditions

Valiollah SOLEIMANI, Jafar AHMADI, Saber GOLKARI, Behzad SADEGHZADEH

Estimating genetic diversity among selected cotton genotypes and the identificationof DNA markers associated with resistance to cotton leaf curl disease

Ammad ABBAS, Muhammad Atif IQBAL, Mehboob-ur RAHMAN, Andrew H PATERSON

Aquaporins as targets for stress tolerance in plants: genomic complexity and perspectives

WONKEUN JOHN PARK, BENJAMIN TODD CAMPBELL

Development of AFLP markers associated with zucchini yellow mosaicvirus resistance in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)

Hasan Özgür ŞIĞVA, Ahmet Fikret FIRAT, Gülden HAZARHUN, Ahmet İPEK

Identification of bacterial leaf blight resistance genes in wild rice of eastern India

Anil Kumar SINGH, Ekta DHARMRAJ, Rohini NAYAK, Pawan Kumar SINGH, Nagendra Kumar SINGH

Activated expression of EsHD1 enhances drought tolerance in tobacco plants via mitigation of reactive oxygen species-mediated membrane damage

Cheng ZHOU, Zhongyou MA, Lin ZHU, Jiansheng GUO, Xianghuan CUI, Jian ZHU, Jianfei WANG

Soil bacteria conferred a positive relationship and improved salt stress tolerance in transgenic pea (Pisum sativum L.) harboring Na+/H+ antiporter

Zahid ALI, Nasr ULLAH, Saadia NASEEM, Muhammad İnam Ul HAQ, Hans Joerg JACOBSEN

Characterizing the expression of genes involved in iron transport inPakistani peanut varieties under iron deficiency stress

Shamim AKHTAR, Yusuke KAKEI, Khurrum BASHIR, Armghan SHAHZAD, Takashi YAMAKAWA, Muhammad ARSHAD, Fayyaz- UL-HASSAN, Hiromi NAKANISHI, Naoko K. NISHIZAWA

Ameliorative role of β-estradiol against lead-induced oxidative stress and genotoxic damage in germinating wheat seedlings

Mucip GENİŞEL, Yavuz DEMİR, İrfan TERZİ, Serkan ERDAL, Ebru GENÇ, Hülya TÜRK

Preface

HİKMET BUDAK, LUIGI CATTIVELLI, GERMAN SPANGENBERG