Extreme heat, drought and moisture excess are increasingly co-occurring within a single
growing season, impacting crop yields in global breadbasket regions. In this Review, we …

Photosynthesis sustains plant life on earth and is indispensable for plant growth and
development. Factors such as unfavorable environmental conditions, stress regulatory …

The current unpredictable climate changes are causing frequent and severe droughts. Such
circumstances emphasize the need to understand the response of plants to drought stress …

Using chlorophyll (Chl) a fluorescence many aspects of the photosynthetic apparatus can be
studied, both in vitro and, noninvasively, in vivo. Complementary techniques can help to …

Abiotic stressful conditions of the environment such as soil salinity, drought, flood, heat, cold,
anaerobiosis, gaseous pollutants, radiation, and high levels of metals in the soil are major …

Water scarcity is a major challenge to wheat productivity under changing climate conditions,
especially in arid and semi-arid regions. During recent years, different agronomic …

Stressful environments such as salinity, drought, and high temperature (heat) cause
alterations in a wide range of physiological, biochemical, and molecular processes in plants …

Increasing human population and changing climate, which have given rise to frequent
drought spells, pose a serious threat to global food security, while identification of high …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) present an exciting opportunity to monitor crop fields with
high spatial and temporal resolution remote sensing capable of improving water stress …

To understand the effect of heat and drought on three major cereal crops, the physiological
and biochemical (ie, metabolic) factors affecting photosynthesis were examined in rice …