Drought is considered as one of the major limiting factors affecting growth and productivity of
crop plants. It severely affects the morphological and physiological activities of the plants …

Plants under natural conditions often face multiple environmental constraints in terms of
submergence, temperature extremes, salinity, and drought stress. Plant growth and …

Scarcity of water is a severe environmental constraint to plant productivity. Drought-induced
loss in crop yield probably exceeds losses from all other causes, since both the severity and …

Opuntia ficus-indica fruit and cladodes are a source of mucilage, a carbohydrate complex,
as well as of phytochemicals and other nutrients, useful in the food industry. Despite the …

This work is a contribution to give value addition to second grade dates (with hard texture)
by the production of enzymatically treated syrup with high commercial value. It was observed …

Succulent plants represent a large functional group of drought-resistant plants that store
water in specialized tissues. Several co-adaptive traits accompany this water-storage …

Productivity of irrigated prickly pear cactus [Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Miller] was studied over
3 years in central Chile using two planting densities. A low-density planting (0.25 plants/m2) …

Stomatal function can be used effectively to monitor plant hydraulics, photosensitivity, and
gas exchange. Current approaches to measure single stomatal aperture, such as mold …

Plant polysaccharides are beneficial for developing new drugs, nutraceuticals and functional
foods. Cactus is of interest to researchers in agronomy, medicine and food chemistry …

Most of net photosynthesis determinations in Opuntia ficus-indica come from measurements
on individual cladodes. However, they have limitations when used to scale up to whole …