ISSN 2167-0447
International Journal of Agricultural Sciences ISSN: 2167-0447 Vol. 16 (2), pp. 001-006, February, 2026. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals
Review
Molecular Insight into Plant Drought Resistance Mechanisms
Mohammad Israil Ansari1* and Tsan-Piao Lin2
1Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Lucknow Campus, Lucknow, India
2Institute of Plant Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Accepted 2 October, 2025
Plants respond to survive under water-deficit conditions via a series of physiological, cellular, and molecular processes culminating in stress tolerance. Many drought-inducible genes with various functions have been identified by molecular and genomic analyses in various plants, including a number of transcription factors that regulate stress-inducible gene expression. The products of stress-inducible genes function both in the initial stress response and in establishing plant stress tolerance. In this short review, recent progress resulting from analysis of gene expression during the drought-stress response in plants as well as in elucidating the functions of genes implicated in the stress response are summarized.
Keywords: Dehydration, Gene expression, Regulation, Transcription.