Some advances in plant stress physiology and their implications in the systems biology era

The study for biointerfaces at different scales in the past years has pricked up the march of biological sciences, in which biomembrane concept and its characteristics, receptor proteins, ion channel proteins, LEA proteins, calcium and newly recognized second messengers, ROS, MAPKs and their related sensors and new genes in osmoregulation, signal transduction, and other aspects have been understood fully, widening area of understanding the extensive interactions from biosystem and biointerfaces. The related discipline, plant stress physiology, especially, crop stress physiology has gained much attention world widely, the important reason of which is from the reducing quality of global ecoenvironment and decreasing food supply. This short review will place a stress on the recent progresses in plant stress physiology, combined with the new results from our State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau.