Bioinformatics Resources for the Management of Biological Information on Plant Responses Towards Stresses
In natural and agricultural conditions, plants are exposed to multiple stresses that impose severe impact on growth and development. Stress in plants can be considered as a change in growth phage which leads to disturbance of metabolic homeostasis. Plant
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Abstract
In natural and agricultural conditions, plants are exposed to multiple stresses that impose severe impact on growth and development. Stress in plants can be considered as a change in growth phage which leads to disturbance of metabolic homeostasis. Plant pathogens result in biotic stresses, whereas environmental stimuli generate multiple abiotic stresses like temperature extremes, drought, chemical toxicity, salinity, heavy metals, oxidative stress and radiation. Plants respond to these stresses and develop better adaptation by activating their intrinsic machinery. Currently, biological research is witnessing increasing development of methods, technologies and implementations for a better mechanistic representation of biological systems. In the era of multi-omics approaches addressing multiple aspects of biological mechanisms shown by plants in response to biotic or abiotic stresses, huge data is emerging out from research work. This data needs proper management, analysis and interpretation in order to decipher plant strategies to combat stresses. In the past decades, a large number of databases, software, tools and web resources were developed to make ease of access for researchers working to decipher plant responses towards stresses. In this chapter we are describing bioinformatics resources which need to describe information on plant responses against stresses. Bioinformatics resources like database of annotated tentative orthologs from crop abiotic stress transcripts, MIPS PlantsDB, GreenPhylDB, Gramene, GCP Comparative Stress Gene Catalog, Plant Stress Gene Database, PASmiR, QlicRice, Rice Stress Gene Catalog, Arabidopsis Stress Responsive Gene Database, STIFDB and STIFDB2 are available to facilitate multi-omics research in this field.
R. Prabha D.P. Singh (*) V. Keshri Sevyaa A.K. Sharma National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Kushmaur, Maunath Bhanjan 275101, India 091-547-2530125 091-547-2530358 e-mail: [email protected] R.K. Gaur and P. Sharma (eds.), Approaches to Plant Stress and their Management, DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-1620-9_21, # Springer India 2014
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Some of these resources are specific to particular plants, whereas others are generalized and contain information about multiple species. Keywords
Bioinformatics Metabolomics
Plant stress
Introduction In the entire life cycle, plants in natural habitat are exposed to multiple biotic and abiotic factors which lead to stresses in plants. Thus, plants require stringent biological mechanisms for fighting against such stresses and gaining better adaptation. Plants recognize any unfavourable changes in their surrounding environment and respond to it. Plants are exposed to these stresses in natural and agricultural conditions, both, and this imposes severe impact on development and growth of plants. Multiple environmental conditions like light, temperature, soil and water availability and salt have influence on growth and development of plants, a
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