… Drought stress is one of the most serious constraints that … Among notable drought-tolerant
plants, prickly pear stands as a … ficus-indica cladodes subjected to drought stress under …

… This study demonstrated that drought stress reduced cladode thickness, RWC, malic acid …
to temperature variations, while under severe drought stress, SMC has higher influence than …

… Increasing the concentration of NaCl to 10 gL −1 and the duration of stress … Drought stress
did not significantly affect the survival rate of explants (95.75–100%). Notably, drought stress …

… ficus-indica) cultivars, principally as a drought-tolerant crop for the arid Karoo regions of
South Africa (Beinart & Wotshela, Citation2011). Since then, 78 new varieties have been bred …

… tissue to the chiorenchyma occurs during water stress (Schmidt and Kaiser 1987), The …
of the widely cultivated prickly-pear cactus, Opuntia ficus-indica, during prolonged drought. …

… for sunflower (Robertson et al., 1990a); its root mitotic activity sharply decreases 6 h after
the onset of drought and partially recovers after 3 d (Robertson et al., 1990b). Osmotic stress …

… The present investigation revealed that growing cactus plants under drought stress
negatively affected growth parameters such as cladode area, root length, and dry biomass. …

… ficus‐indica to evaluate the effects of drought and GA 3 on fruit development. The following
two hypotheses were tested: (1) drought will negatively affect fruit development for this cactus…

… ficusindica but also to their limited recovery after rewetting. The lower Lp previously reported
for well-watered 12-month-old roots of F. acanthodes (Lopez & Nobel, 1991) may also have …

… downward when the plants were under drought conditions at all three growth temperatures
… shifted to lower temperatures upon drought (Fig. 6). Water stress can lower the temperature …