Water use efficiency across scales: from genes to landscapes

V Vadez, R Pilloni, A Grondin… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Water scarcity is already set to be one of the main issues of the 21st century, because of
competing needs between civil, industrial, and agricultural use. Agriculture is currently the …

Transpiration response to soil drying versus increasing vapor pressure deficit in crops: physical and physiological mechanisms and key plant traits

T Koehler, FJP Wankmüller, W Sadok… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The water deficit experienced by crops is a function of atmospheric water demand (vapor
pressure deficit) and soil water supply over the whole crop cycle. We summarize typical …

Mitigation of the salinity stress in rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) productivity by exogenous applications of bio-selenium nanoparticles during the early seedling stage

AM El-Badri, M Batool, IAA Mohamed, Z Wang… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, much attention has been directed toward using nanoparticles (NPs) as one
of the most effective strategies to improve plant growth, especially under salt stress …

Deciphering trait associated morpho-physiological responses in pearlmillet hybrids and inbred lines under salt stress

A Kumar, P Sheoran, A Mann, D Yadav… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Pearl millet is a staple food for more than 90 million people residing in highly vulnerable hot
arid and semi–arid regions of Africa and Asia. These regions are more prone to detrimental …

Pearl millet a promising fodder crop for changing climate: A review

HS Daduwal, R Bhardwaj, RK Srivastava - Theoretical and Applied …, 2024 - Springer
The agricultural sector faces colossal challenges amid environmental changes and a
burgeoning human population. In this context, crops must adapt to evolving climatic …

Comprehensive physiological, transcriptomic, and metabolomic analysis of the key metabolic pathways in millet seedling adaptation to drought stress

X Cui, B Wang, Z Chen, J Guo, T Zhang… - Physiologia …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Drought is one of the leading environmental constraints that affect the growth and
development of plants and, ultimately, their yield and quality. Foxtail millet (Setaria italica) is …

The potentialities of omics resources for millet improvement

Banshidhar, S Pandey, A Singh, P Jaiswal… - Functional & Integrative …, 2023 - Springer
Millets are nutrient-rich (nutri-rich) cereals with climate resilience attributes. However, its full
productive potential is not realized due to the lack of a focused yield improvement approach …

Optimizing crop water use for drought and climate change adaptation requires a multi-scale approach

JD Burridge, A Grondin, V Vadez - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Selection criteria that co-optimize water use efficiency and yield are needed to promote plant
productivity in increasingly challenging and variable drought scenarios, particularly dryland …

Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Analysis of the Aquaporin Gene Family in Lycium barbarum during Fruit Ripening and Seedling Response to Heat Stress

W He, M Liu, X Qin, A Liang, Y Chen, Y Yin… - Current Issues in …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Plant–water relations mediated by aquaporins (AQPs) play vital roles in both key plant
growth processes and responses to environmental challenges. As a well-known medicinal …

Gene coexpression analysis identifies genes associated with chlorophyll content and relative water content in pearl millet

H Shinde, A Dudhate, A Sathe, N Paserkar, SG Wagh… - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Pearl millet is a significant crop that is tolerant to abiotic stresses and is a staple food of arid
regions. However, its underlying mechanisms of stress tolerance are not fully understood …