Yali Deng¹ , Xuebiao Fu²

1 Tropical Medicinal Plant Research Center, Hainan Institute of Tropical Agricultural Resources, Sanya, 572025, Hainan, China
2 Traditional Chinese Medicine Research Center, Cuixi Academy of Biotechnology, Zhuji, 311800, Zhejiang, China
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Medicinal Plant Research, 2025, Vol. 15, No. 4   doi: 10.5376/mpr.2025.15.0017
Received: 15 May, 2025    Accepted: 20 Jun., 2025    Published: 08 Jul., 2025

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Deng Y.L., and Fu X.B., 2025, Study on the molecular basis of stress resistance mechanisms and cultivation strategies in Sapindus seedlings, Medicinal Plant Research, 15(4): 161-168 (doi: 10.5376/mpr.2025.15.0017)

 

Sapindus mukorossi, being an important economic and ecological tree, is experiencing low survival and growth of its seedlings under stress conditions such as drought, cold temperature, salinity, and pest and disease pressure, which have a direct effect on industry development. There has been outstanding advancement in S. mukorossi seedling stress tolerance studies in the recent past. This review systematically summarizes the recent research achievements on stress tolerance, including physiological and biochemical responses, molecular regulatory mechanisms, and multi-omics studies, including signal perception and transduction, key transcription factors, stress-response genes and functional proteins, and epigenic regulation. Special emphasis is placed on the application of multi-omics technologies to elucidating stress regulatory networks, e.g., transcriptomics, metabolomics, proteomics, and integrative analysis therefrom. The book also discusses how to strengthen seedling stress resistance through methods including traditional nursery management, molecular breeding, genetic engineering and genome editing, and microbial symbiotic systems, and introduces productive experiences of rapid screening of stress-resistant seedlings, constructing effective nursery systems, and utilization to ecological restoration and industry. The study especially highlights the combination of molecular mechanism research and practice in cultivation, providing a regular theoretical and practical reference for industrial utilization of stress-tolerant S. mukorossi seedlings, cultivation management, and molecular breeding.

Sapindus mukorossi; Seedling; Stress tolerance; Molecular basis; Cultivation methods