Increasing severity of high temperature worldwide presents an alarming threat to the
humankind. As evident by massive yield losses in various food crops, the escalating adverse …

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 …

Increase photorespiration and optimising intrinsic water use efficiency are unique
challenges to photosynthetic carbon fixation at elevated temperatures. To determine how …

Maintaining the integrity of the cuticular transpiration barrier even at elevated temperatures
is of vital importance especially for hot-desert plants. Currently, the temperature dependence …

The survival and reproduction of plants depend on their ability to cope with a wide range of
daily and seasonal environmental fluctuations during their life cycle. Phytohormones are …

Crown clade Apocynaceae comprise seven primary lineages of lianas, shrubs, and herbs
with a diversity of pollen aggregation morphologies including monads, tetrads, and pollinia …

Main conclusions In contrast to Neltuma species, S. tamarugo exhibited higher stress
tolerance, maintaining photosynthetic performance through enhanced gene expression and …

Background Climate change is predicted to be a serious threat to agriculture due to the need
for crops to be able to tolerate increased heat stress. Desert plants have already adapted to …

Milkweeds (Asclepias) are used in wide-ranging studies including floral development,
pollination biology, plant-insect interactions and co-evolution, secondary metabolite …

The search for novel stress tolerance determinants has led to increasing interest in plants
native to extreme environments–so called “extremophytes.” One successful strategy has …