ReviewGenes2021
Rooting in the Desert: A Developmental Overview on Desert Plants.
Review in Genes, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 62 citations in OpenAlex.
- Physiological response strategies of pioneer endemic speciesFrontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Unearthing the hidden organ: vital role of the root in drought tolerance of plants.Plant molecular biology · 2025Review
- Adaptation of Plants to UV-B Radiation with Altitude in Tuha Basin: Synergistic Regulation of Epidermal Structure, Secondary Metabolites, and Organic Element Allocation.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Microscopy and spatial-metabolomics identify tissue-specific metabolic pathways uncovering salinity and drought tolerance mechanisms in Avicennia marina and Phoenix dactylifera roots.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Population genetic diversity and environmental adaptation of Tamarix hispida in the Tarim Basin, arid Northwestern China.Heredity · 2024Article
- Physiology, genomics, and evolutionary aspects of desert plants.Journal of advanced research · 2024Review
- Variations in root architecture traits and their association with organ mass fraction of common annual ephemeral species in the desert of northern Xinjiang.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Strategies of Molecular Signal Integration for Optimized Plant Acclimation to Stress Combinations.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024Review
- Discrepancy in coordination and variation of root and leaf traits among herbaceous and shrub species in the desert, China.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Article
- Phenotypic plasticity: A missing element in the theory of vegetation pattern formation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Responses of Ephemeral Plants to Precipitation Changes and Their Effects on Community in Central Asia Cold Desert.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Root Morphology and Biomass Allocation of 50 Annual Ephemeral Species in Relation to Two Soil Condition.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Chromosome-level genome assembly of a xerophytic plant, Haloxylon ammodendron.DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes · 2022Article
- Combined metabolomic and transcriptomic analysis reveals key components ofFrontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Parallel adaptation prompted core-periphery divergence ofFrontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Plant CDKs-Driving the Cell Cycle through Climate Change.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Plants, as sessile organisms, have evolved a remarkable developmental plasticity to cope with their changing environment. When growing in hostile desert conditions, plants have to grow and thrive in heat and drought. This review discusses how desert plants have adapted their root system architecture (RSA) to cope with scarce water availability and poor nutrient availability in the desert soil. First, we describe how some species can survive by developing deep tap roots to access the groundwater while others produce shallow roots to exploit the short rain seasons and unpredictable rainfalls. Then, we discuss how desert plants have evolved unique developmental programs like having determinate meristems in the case of cacti while forming a branched and compact root system that allows efficient water uptake during wet periods. The remote germination mechanism in date palms is another example of developmental adaptation to survive in the dry and hot desert surface. Date palms have also designed non-gravitropic secondary roots, termed pneumatophores, to maximize water and nutrient uptake. Next, we highlight the distinct anatomical features developed by desert species in response to drought like narrow vessels, high tissue suberization, and air spaces within the root cortex tissue. Finally, we discuss the beneficial impact of the microbiome in promoting root growth in desert conditions and how these characteristics can be exploited to engineer resilient crops with a greater ability to deal with salinity induced by irrigation and with the increasing drought caused by global warming.
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