关键词: 干旱, 表型, 生理, 分子, 基因工程

Abstract: Drought stress is one of the major limitations to plant growth and development. Drought can lead to osmotic imbalance, damage of membrane system, decrease of respiration rate and photosynthesis rate, etc. adverse reaction. It not only hinders plant growth and metabolism at different stages, but also affects crops to achieve good quality and high yield. In the interaction between plants and external environment, plants will build drought response, such as changing the structure of plant root system and leaf blades, composition of metabolites and expression of drought-resistant genes to resist drought stress. The paper reviewed the research progress in the mechanism of plant response to drought stress from phenotypic level, physiological level and molecular level. The response of drought stress in phenotypic mainly included the structure change of root system and leaf. The response of drought stress to physiological was mainly reflected in photosynthesis, osmotic regulation, antioxidant metabolism and hormone, etc.. The paper elaborated in detail the molecular mechanism of plant drought stress response and regulatory and functional genes involved in drought stress, discussed the existing problems and look forward the research prospect.

Key words: drought, phenotype, physiology, molecule, genetic engineering