Spaceflight alters expression of stress and regulatory genes in Arabidopsis cells

This chain explains why diverse gene families—especially those mediating heat shock, stress response, transcription regulation, and metabolism—show altered expression under spaceflight. It connects major observed patterns: strong upregulation of heat shock response genes and stress pathways, widespread downregulation of transcription factors, cell wall/metabolic and calcium/gravitropism-related genes, and scattered senescence, terpenoid and seed metabolism changes. These trends are interpreted as a coordinated cellular stress response to the spaceflight environment.

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