Table 4.

Dehydrin, a biochemical marker in plants' adaptive response to various abiotic stress

Stress	Plant	Analytical Technique	Family/Loci	Mechanisms/process	References
Drought	Glycine max L. Merr	SDS PAGE and Western blot	Family: SK3 (DHN 1) LOC100816147	Accumulation of dehydrin proteins increases the resilience of the drought-tolerant cultivar by facilitating membrane stability, ion flow, and water retention	Arumingtyas and Savitri (2013)
Cold, drought and salinity	Triticum aestivum L.	RNA-seq	Family: SK3 (DHN7) LOCUS: AF7085145	Overexpression of the SK3-type dehydrin gene (TaDHN7) improves stress tolerance by stabilizing cellular structures and macromolecules	Hao et al. (2022)
Drought	Coix lacryma-jobi L.	RNA-seq and qRT-PCR	Family: DHN1 LOC100816147	Upregulation of the dehydrin gene improves tolerance by mitigating oxidative damage	Miao et al. (2021)
Drought	Cucumis melo L.	Western blot	Not specified	Accumulation of dehydrin proteins during water stress prevents the denaturing of macromolecules and maintains turgor pressure	Motallebi-Azar et al. (2019)
Salinity	Hordeum vulgare L.	SDS-PAGE and Immunoblot assay	Family: K (DHN 5) LOCUS: AAD02262	Accumulation of dehydrin protein confers tolerance via its radical scavenging, cryoprotective, ion binding, and chaperone function in the cell	Kosová et al. (2015)
Cold and drought	Solanum sogarandinum L.	Western blot	Family: SK3 (DHN24) LOCUS: AAP44575	The accumulation of DHN 24 in the roots, stems, and leaves stabilizes macromolecules by facilitating the formation of intermolecular hydrogen bonds, hence increasing stress tolerance	Szabala et al. (2014)
Salinity	Triticum aestivum L.	LC–MS	Not specified	Increased expression of dehydrin proteins improves adaptation to salt stress by efficiently regulating ion balance, osmotic pressure, oxidative stress, and protein damage	Khan et al. (2023)