ReviewPlant physiology2013
The agony of choice: how plants balance growth and survival under water-limiting conditions.
Review in Plant physiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 183 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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183 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- A balancing act: how plants integrate nitrogen and water signals.Journal of experimental botany · 2020Pooled it
- Identification of conserved drought-adaptive genes using a cross-species meta-analysis approach.BMC plant biology · 2015Pooled it
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- Drought-associated genes exhibit high constitutive expression in Quercus douglasii, a drought-tolerant California oak.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Article
- TaPP2C-a5 fine-tunes wheat seed dormancy and germination with a Triticeae-specific, alternatively spliced transcript.Journal of advanced research · 2026Article
- Molecular Mechanisms and Experimental Strategies for Understanding Plant Drought Response.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Morphophysiological and antioxidant enzymatic mechanisms of seven Axonopus compressus variants grown under water stress conditions.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Transcriptomic insights into drought response in wild Arachis relatives A. dardani and A. ipaënsis.BMC plant biology · 2025Article
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Abstract
When confronted with water limitation, plants actively reprogram their metabolism and growth. Recently, it has become clear that growing tissues show specific and highly dynamic responses to drought, which differ from the well-studied responses in mature tissues. Here, we provide an overview of recent advances in understanding shoot growth regulation in water-limiting conditions. Of special interest is the balance between maintained growth and competitiveness on the one hand and ensured survival on the other hand. A number of master regulators controlling this balance have been identified, such as DELLAs and APETALA2/ETHYLENE RESPONSE FACTOR-type transcription factors. The possibilities of engineering or breeding crops that maintain growth in periods of mild drought, while still being able to activate protective tolerance mechanisms, are discussed.
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