I think the MS is a short and timely review on hot topics in abiotic stress signaling in response to drought and cold in higher plants.

I proposed a novel model for complex abiotic stress signaling processes in higher plants. I mainly discussed on specificity and crosstalk between drought and cold stress responses.

We discussed on a major transcription systems that control stress-inducible gene expression in response to dehydration and low temperature. We identified key transcription factors that function in drought-and cold-responsive gene expression. Using the stress-inducible transcription factor, we have succeeded in improving stress tolerance of transgenic plants under drought, high salinity and freezing conditions. Newspapers described our transgenics plants as "super plants that are tolerant to multiabitoics stress", and introduced our work as "An important progress of molecular breeding of drought, high salinity, and cold stress tolerant crops"

In the manuscript, I discussed differences and cross talk between dehydration- and cold-stress signaling cascades, which is a novel concept in stress physiology in the field of plant biology.