Different Roles of Heat Shock Proteins (70 kDa) During Abiotic Stresses in Barley () Genotypes.

In this work, the involvement of heat shock proteins (HSP70) in barley () has been studied in response to drought and salinity. Thus, 3 barley genotypes usually cultivated and/or selected in Italy, 3 Middle East/North Africa landraces and genotypes and 1 improved genotype from ICARDA have been studied to identify those varieties showing the best stress response. Preliminarily, a bioinformatic characterization of the HSP70s protein family in barley has been made by using annotated Arabidopsis protein sequences.