ReviewPlant physiology2025
Plant hydraulic traits influencing crop production in water-limited environments.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Cellular integrity beyond xylem embolism underpins drought tolerance in zoysiagrasses.Journal of experimental botany · 2026Article
- Hydraulic Signaling in Plants: From Physical Perturbation to Distributed Perception and Context-Dependent Decoding.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Water use efficiency in cereal crops: stomatal, hydraulic, biochemical mechanisms, and translational strategies for improvement.Photosynthesis research · 2026Review
- Root Hydraulic and Metabolomic Recovery Outpaces Stomatal Reopening in Rewatered Quinoa.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Green revolution breeding favored water conservation, but weakened water use sensitivity to rising vapor pressure deficit in US spring wheat.Plant physiology · 2026Article
- Genotype-specific responses of common bean to water deficit: mitigation by foliar-applied Fe, Zn, and Mn.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Focus issue editorial: ecophysiology.Plant physiology · 2026Article
- Genotype-Specific Photosynthetic Plasticity and Leaf Yield ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Mechanisms of drought tolerance in legumes: physiological impacts, adaptive responses, and phenotyping strategies.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Review
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Abstract
Annual crops commonly experience production losses due to soil water limitation and increased vapor pressure deficit (VPD). Crop species and genotypes vary in their ability to sustain production during drought, which reflects variations in drought resistance mechanisms. In this review, we discuss the critical influence of water transport (hydraulic conductances and stomatal traits) on the ability of crops to avoid and tolerate drought, thus sustaining yield. We also summarize scientific gaps to be addressed in the future. Limited transpiration traits, including reduced stomatal density/conductance and increased stomatal sensitivity to soil drought and high VPD, constitute important drought avoidance mechanisms. Drought avoidance is suggested to result in soil water conservation for the critical reproductive stage and yield stability under moderate and terminal droughts. As crop fields experience increasingly drier soils and greater VPD, tolerance mechanisms might become critical to crop production. Osmotic adjustment stands as an important tolerance mechanism that improves crop production during severe droughts. Preventing xylem embolism and/or refilling embolized xylem upon rehydration represent drought tolerance mechanisms critical for plant survival during drought, but their contribution to crop production during droughts is unknown. Time for hydraulic failure combines drought avoidance and tolerance, and its importance for crop production during moderate and severe droughts should be assessed.
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