The Role of Polyphenols in Abiotic Stress Response: The Influence of Molecular Structure

Šamec, Dunja; Karalija, Erna; Šola, Ivana; Vujčić Bok, Valerija; Salopek-Sondi, Branka (2021) The Role of Polyphenols in Abiotic Stress Response: The Influence of Molecular Structure. Plants, 10 . ISSN 2223-7747

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Abstract

Abiotic stressors such as extreme temperatures, drought, flood, light, salt, and heavy metals alter biological diversity and crop production worldwide. Therefore, it is important to know the mechanisms by which plants cope with stress conditions. Polyphenols, which are the largest group of plant-specialized metabolites, are generally recognized as molecules involved in stress protection in plants. This diverse group of metabolites contains various structures, from simple forms consisting of one aromatic ring to more complex ones consisting of large number of polymerized molecules. Consequently, all these molecules, depending on their structure, may show different roles in plant growth, development, and stress protection. In the present review, we aimed to summarize data on how different polyphenol structures influence their biological activity and their roles in abiotic stress responses. We focused our review on phenolic acids, flavonoids, stilbenoids, and lignans.

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Article

Uncontrolled Keywords:

abiotic stress ; polyphenols ; phenolic acids ; flavonoids ; stilbenoids ; lignans

Subjects:

NATURAL SCIENCES > Biology

Divisions:

Division of Molecular Biology

Projects:

Project title	Project leader	Project code	Project type
Potencijal rizosfernog mikrobioma u prilagodbi poljoprivrede klimatskim promjenama	Palijan, Goran	KK.05.1.1.02.0001	FZOEU
Agrobioraznolikost - osnova za prilagodbu i ublažavanje posljedica klimatskih promjena u poljoprivredi	Goreta Ban, Smiljana; Salopek Sondi, Branka; Bauer, Nataša; Jasprica, Nenad; Kereša, Snježana	KK.05.1.1.02.0005	EK
Prilagodba povrtnih kultura novim agrometeorološkim uvjetima u Slavoniji i Baranji-AVACS	Krunoslav Mirosavljević; Marina Ilakovac-Kveder; Branka Salopek-Sondi; Slobodan Milošević	KK.05.1.1.02.0004	FZOEU