**Key findings**

Late embryogenesis abundant (Lea) gene play role in plant protection during drought and cold stress, Lea genes produce a hydrophilic protein. In rice plants, these hydrophilic proteins are identified that protect the cell membrane from injury under drought stress. Under salt stress when plants go under dehydration, ABRE binding factors are transcribed by the plant cell which protect the plant against salinity. A large number of genes studies have been used for the identification of genes that respond to cold stress in Arabidopsis. Results of the studies showed that under cold stress, mRNA levels of many genes that are important for plant growth and development altered.

## **Author details**

Noreen Fatima\*, Faiza Khan and Asif Saeed University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan

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