Response and defence mechanisms of vegetable crops against drought, heat and salinity stress

M Giordano, SA Petropoulos, Y Rouphael - Agriculture, 2021 - mdpi.com
Environmental pollution, increasing CO2 atmospheric levels and the greenhouse effect are
closely associated with the ongoing climate change and the extreme climatic events we are …

Phytohormones enhanced drought tolerance in plants: a coping strategy

A Ullah, H Manghwar, M Shaban, AH Khan… - … Science and Pollution …, 2018 - Springer
Drought stress is a severe environmental constraint among the emerging problems. Plants
are highly vulnerable to drought stress and a severe decrease in yield was recorded in the …

Early-stage detection of biotic and abiotic stress on plants by chlorophyll fluorescence imaging analysis

J Moustaka, M Moustakas - Biosensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Most agricultural land, as a result of climate change, experiences severe stress that
significantly reduces agricultural yields. Crop sensing by imaging techniques allows early …

Early drought stress warning in plants: Color pictures of photosystem II photochemistry

M Moustakas, I Sperdouli, J Moustaka - Climate, 2022 - mdpi.com
Drought, the major limiting factor for plant growth and crop productivity, affecting several
physiological and biochemical processes, is expected to increase in duration, intensity, and …

Mesophyll diffusion conductance to CO2: an unappreciated central player in photosynthesis

J Flexas, MM Barbour, O Brendel, HM Cabrera… - Plant Science, 2012 - Elsevier
Mesophyll diffusion conductance to CO2 is a key photosynthetic trait that has been studied
intensively in the past years. The intention of the present review is to update knowledge of …

Genetic engineering for modern agriculture: challenges and perspectives

R Mittler, E Blumwald - Annual review of plant biology, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Abiotic stress conditions such as drought, heat, or salinity cause extensive losses to
agricultural production worldwide. Progress in generating transgenic crops with enhanced …

Stomatal conductance, mesophyll conductance, and transpiration efficiency in relation to leaf anatomy in rice and wheat genotypes under drought

W Ouyang, PC Struik, X Yin… - Journal of Experimental …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Increasing leaf transpiration efficiency (TE) may provide leads for growing rice like dryland
cereals such as wheat (Triticum aestivum). To explore avenues for improving TE in rice …

Plant responses to drought and rewatering

Z Xu, G Zhou, H Shimizu - Plant signaling & behavior, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Plants would be more vulnerable to water stress and thereafter rewatering or a cycled water
environmental change, which occur more frequently under climatic change conditions in …

Genotypic variation in growth and physiological response to drought stress and re-watering reveals the critical role of recovery in drought adaptation in maize …

D Chen, S Wang, B Cao, D Cao, G Leng, H Li… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Non-irrigated crops in temperate climates and irrigated crops in arid climates are subjected
to continuous cycles of water stress and re-watering. Thus, fast and efficient recovery from …

Photosynthetic metabolism under stressful growth conditions as a bases for crop breeding and yield improvement

F Morales, M Ancín, D Fakhet, J González-Torralba… - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Increased periods of water shortage and higher temperatures, together with a reduction in
nutrient availability, have been proposed as major factors that negatively impact plant …