Karlik, E.2024-05-192024-05-19202297803239059479780323907170https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90594-7.00013-2https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12713/4156Abiotic stress has several effects on plants, resulting in many different ways, including growth retardation and crop production reduction. Plants have developed diverse mechanisms for responding to constantly changing environmental factors. In recent years, studies on the receptor like-kinases (RLKs) have centered on revealing the molecular mechanism of RLKs in signal transduction to respond to abiotic stress and disease resistance in plants. Stress factors are perceived by RLKs—which are serine/threonine protein kinases, including an extracellular domain recognizing specific ligands, a membrane-spanning domain, and a conserved cytoplasmic kinase region-transduce signals from the environment and other cells to yield an appropriate response to the changing environment. Several RLKs have been studied to reveal their responses under abiotic stress conditions. In this chapter, we will summarize recent studies on RLK functions under abiotic stress conditions, including drought, salt, temperature fluctuations, and oxidative stress. © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessAbiotic StressCytoplasmicDroughtExtracellularKinaseOxidative StressReceptor-Like ProteinsRlksSaltSignal TransductionStressTemperature FluctuationsBook Chapter871192-s2.0-8514284812110.1016/B978-0-323-90594-7.00013-2N/A