Drought or/and heat-stress effects on seed filling in food crops: impacts on functional biochemistry, seed yields, and nutritional quality

A Sehgal, K Sita, KHM Siddique, R Kumar… - Frontiers in plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Drought (water deficits) and heat (high temperatures) stress are the prime abiotic
constraints, under the current and climate change scenario in future. Any further increase in …

Crop production under drought and heat stress: plant responses and management options

S Fahad, AA Bajwa, U Nazir, SA Anjum… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Abiotic stresses are one of the major constraints to crop production and food security
worldwide. The situation has aggravated due to the drastic and rapid changes in global …

Drought stress in wheat during flowering and grain-filling periods

M Farooq, M Hussain, KHM Siddique - Critical reviews in plant …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Drought is a major environmental stress threatening wheat productivity worldwide. Global
climate models predict changed precipitation patterns with frequent episodes of drought …

Abiotic stress signaling in wheat–an inclusive overview of hormonal interactions during abiotic stress responses in wheat

K Abhinandan, L Skori, M Stanic… - Frontiers in plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Rapid global warming directly impacts agricultural productivity and poses a major challenge
to the present-day agriculture. Recent climate change models predict severe losses in crop …

Plant drought stress: effects, mechanisms and management

M Farooq, A Wahid, N Kobayashi, D Fujita… - Sustainable …, 2009 - Springer
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 …

The effect of drought and heat stress on reproductive processes in cereals

B Barnabás, K Jäger, A Fehér - Plant, cell & environment, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
As the result of intensive research and breeding efforts over the last 20 years, the yield
potential and yield quality of cereals have been greatly improved. Nowadays, yield safety …

Food legumes and rising temperatures: effects, adaptive functional mechanisms specific to reproductive growth stage and strategies to improve heat tolerance

K Sita, A Sehgal, B HanumanthaRao, RM Nair… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Ambient temperatures are predicted to rise in the future owing to several reasons associated
with global climate changes. These temperature increases can result in heat stress-a severe …

High-temperature effects on rice growth, yield, and grain quality

P Krishnan, B Ramakrishnan, KR Reddy… - Advances in agronomy, 2011 - Elsevier
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a globally important cereal plant, and as a primary source of food it
accounts for 35–75% of the calorie intake of more than 3 billion humans. With the likely …

Grain filling of cereals under soil drying

J Yang, J Zhang - New phytologist, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Monocarpic plants require the initiation of whole‐plant senescence to remobilize and
transfer assimilates pre‐stored in vegetative tissues to grains. Delayed whole‐plant …

Antioxidant defense responses: physiological plasticity in higher plants under abiotic constraints

CA Jaleel, K Riadh, R Gopi, P Manivannan… - Acta Physiologiae …, 2009 - Springer
Environmental stresses (salinity, drought, heat/cold, light and other hostile conditions) may
trigger in plants oxidative stress, generating the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) …