ReviewAnnals of botany2008
Coping mechanisms for crop plants in drought-prone environments.
Review in Annals of botany, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Drought stress stimulates endocytosis and modifies membrane lipid order of rhizodermal cells of Medicago truncatula in a genotype-dependent manner.BMC plant biology · 2019Article
- Seaweed extract improve drought tolerance of soybean by regulating stress-response genes.AoB PLANTS · 2018Article
- Morpho-physiological responses of tall wheatgrass populations to different levels of water stress.PloS one · 2018Article
- Sequence of Changes in Maize Responding to Soil Water Deficit and Related Critical Thresholds.Frontiers in plant science · 2018Article
- Biochemical and transcriptomic analyses of drought stress responses of LY1306 tobacco strain.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Exogenous DCPTA Ameliorates Simulated Drought Conditions by Improving the Growth and Photosynthetic Capacity of Maize Seedlings.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Water-Deficit Tolerance in Sweet Potato [Frontiers in plant science · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundDrought is a major limitation to plant productivity. Various options are available for increasing water availability and sustaining growth of crop plants in drought-prone environments. SCOPE: After a general introduction to the problems of water availability, this review focuses on a critical evaluation of recent progress in unravelling mechanisms for modifying plant growth responses to drought.
conclusionsInvestigations of key regulatory mechanisms integrating plant growth responses to water deficits at the whole-organism, cellular and genomic levels continue to provide novel and exiting research findings. For example, recent reports contradict the widespread conception that root-derived abscisic acid is necessarily involved in signalling for stomatal and shoot-growth responses to soil water deficits. The findings bring into question the theoretical basis for alternate-side root-irrigation techniques. Similarly, recent reports indicate that increased ABA production or increased aquaporin expression did not lead to improved drought resistance. Other reports have concerned key genes and proteins involved in regulation of flowering (FT), vegetative growth (DELLA), leaf senescence (IPT) and desiccation tolerance (LEA). Introgression of such genes, with suitable promoters, can greatly impact on whole-plant responses to drought. Further developments could facilitate the introduction by breeders of new crop varieties with growth physiologies tailored to improved field performance under drought. Parallel efforts to encourage the introduction of supplementary irrigation with water made available by improved conservation measures and by sea- or brackish-water desalination, will probably provide comprehensive solutions to coping with drought-prone environments.
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