“…Yet, it is involved in mediating physiological responses to stressful conditions, especially excessive temperature, salinity, and drought [ 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 ]. ABA has been mainly investigated as it promotes the loss of turgor pressure in guard cells triggering stomatal closure [ 9 ], however, an increasing amount of evidences, also based on V. vinifera , address to ABA a central role in other fundamental processes as the hydraulic response to prolonged drought conditions [ 19 ], the regulation of carbohydrate metabolism during recovery [ 20 ], and the exclusion of excessive salts dissolved in the soil solution [ 21 ].…”