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Journal of Integrative Agriculture  2017, Vol. 16 Issue (12): 2709-2716    DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(17)61786-6
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Priming: A promising strategy for crop production in response to future climate
WANG Xiao1, LIU Fu-lai2, JIANG Dong1
1 National Technology Innovation Center for Regional Wheat Production/Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology and Ecology in Southern China, Ministry of Agriculture/College of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, P.R.China
2 Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Taastrup DK-2630, Denmark
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Abstract  Anticipated more frequent extreme events due to changes in global climatic variability requires adaptation of crop species to multi-occurrence abiotic stresses hereby sustaining the food security.  Priming, by pre-exposure of plants to an eliciting factor, enables plants to be more tolerant to later biotic or abiotic stress events.  Priming induced “stress memory” exists in both present generation and the offspring.  Thus, priming is suggested to be a promising strategy for plants to cope with the abiotic stresses under global change scenarios.  In this review, the underlying physiological and molecular mechanisms of priming induced enhancement of stress tolerance to the major abiotic stresses of drought and waterlogging, and high and low temperature in crop plants were discussed, and the potential to utilize the priming effect for sustaining crop productivity in future climates was also suggested.
Keywords:  priming       stress memory       transgenerational priming       physiological mechanisms  
Received: 18 April 2017   Accepted:
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This study was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFD0300107), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31325020, 31401326, 31471445, 31771693), the earmarked fund for China Agriculture Research System (CARS-03), the Project funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, China, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (KJQN201505), the Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Crop Production, China (JCIC-MCP).

Corresponding Authors:  Correspondence JIANG Dong, Tel/Fax: +86-25-84396575, E-mail: jiangd@njau.edu.cn    
About author:  WANG Xiao, E-mail: xiaowang@njau.edu.cn

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WANG Xiao, LIU Fu-lai, JIANG Dong. 2017. Priming: A promising strategy for crop production in response to future climate. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 16(12): 2709-2716.

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