Abstract Background In the Mediterranean climate, plants have evolved under conditions of
low soil-water and nutrient availabilities and have acquired a series of adaptive traits that, in …

Summer-induced changes in gas exchange, fluorescence and reflectance were measured
on leaves of two co-occurring Mediterranean small trees, Quercus ilex and Phillyrea latifolia …

Water shortages and soil water losses due to environmental change and land use change
are challenges to maize production. An experiment was conducted to investigate the …

The need to assess the role of forests in the global cycling of carbon and how that role will
change as the atmospheric concentration of CO2 increases has spawned many experiments …

The effects of drought on the photosynthetic characteristics of three Mediterranean plants
(olive, Olea europea L.; rosemary, Rosmarinus officinalis L.; lavender, Lavandula stoechas …

Chinese castor bean (Ricinus communis L.) cultivation has expanded in coastal saline
regions of Yancheng city in Jiangsu province of China (120° 13′ E, 33° 38′ N), where …

Salvia officinalis L. is a medicinal plant containing several compounds with important
pharmacological activity. In this study, we investigated the effects of water deficit (moderate …

Photosynthetic responses of sunflower plants grown for 52 d in ambient and elevated CO2
(A= 350 or E= 700 µmol mol–1, respectively) and subjected to no (control), mild or severe …

The relationships between different fast (non-modulated) chlorophyll fluorescence
parameters measured in the field and yield were studied in durum wheat (Triticum durum …

Background Drought stress is one of the most harmful abiotic stresses in crop plants. As a
moderately drought tolerant crop, lentil is a major crop in rainfed areas and a suitable …