Many new genes and proteins are induced under stress environment, following the increasing concentration of the abscisic acid. Up to now, hundreds of ABA-responsive genes have been cloned and most of them can be induced by exogenous ABA, these gene's expression products are deduced to play an important role in the gain of stress tolerance. As to the stress signal transduction, it is considered that there may be multiple pathways and regulation mechanisms to be involved. The recent progress is briefly summarized about the ABA-responsive genes.