Plant life in extreme environments: how do you improve drought tolerance?

U Bechtold - Frontiers in plant science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Systems studies of drought stress in resurrection plants and other xerophytes are rapidly
identifying a large number of genes, proteins and metabolites that respond to severe …

Climate change and abiotic stress mechanisms in plants

JN Ferguson - Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 2019 - portlandpress.com
Predicted global climatic change will perturb the productivity of our most valuable crops as
well as detrimentally impact ecological fitness. The most important aspects of climate …

Reducing stomatal density by expression of a synthetic epidermal patterning factor increases leaf intrinsic water use efficiency and reduces plant water use in a C4 …

JN Ferguson, P Schmuker, A Dmitrieva… - Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Enhancing crop water use efficiency (WUE) is a key target trait for climatic resilience and
expanding cultivation on marginal lands. Engineering lower stomatal density to reduce …

Natural variation identifies new effectors of water-use efficiency in Arabidopsis

GB Bhaskara, JR Lasky, S Razzaque… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Water-use efficiency (WUE) is the ratio of biomass produced per unit of water consumed;
thus, it can be altered by genetic factors that affect either side of the ratio. In the present …

Plant strategies for maximizing growth during water stress and subsequent recovery in Solanum melongena L. (eggplant)

EF Delfin, ST Drobnitch, LH Comas - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Climate change is projected to increase the incidence of severe drought in many regions,
potentially requiring selection for different traits in crop species to maintain productivity …

Multidecadal variability of the Tonle Sap Lake flood pulse regime

A Chen, J Liu, M Kummu, O Varis, Q Tang… - Hydrological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Tonle Sap Lake (TSL) is one of the world's most productive lacustrine ecosystems,
driven by the Mekong River's seasonal flood pulse. This flood pulse and its long‐term …

The circadian clock influences the long-term water use efficiency of Arabidopsis

NML Simon, CA Graham, NE Comben… - Plant …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
In plants, water use efficiency (WUE) is a complex trait arising from numerous physiological
and developmental characteristics. Here, we investigated the involvement of circadian …

Drought‐introduced variability of mesophyll conductance in Gossypium and its relationship with leaf anatomy

J Han, Z Lei, Y Zhang, X Yi, W Zhang… - Physiologia …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Mesophyll conductance (gm) is one of the major determinants of photosynthetic rate, for
which it has an impact on crop yield. However, the regulatory mechanisms behind the …

Chloride nutrition improves drought resistance by enhancing water deficit avoidance and tolerance mechanisms

JD Franco-Navarro, P Díaz-Rueda… - Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Chloride (Cl−), traditionally considered harmful for agriculture, has recently been
defined as a beneficial macronutrient with specific roles that result in more efficient use of …

Profiling of advanced glycation end products uncovers abiotic stress-specific target proteins in Arabidopsis

AK Chaplin, I Chernukhin… - Journal of experimental …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Non-enzymatic post-translational modifications of proteins can occur when the nucleophilic
amino acid side chains of lysine and arginine encounter a reactive metabolite to form …