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ArticlePlant, cell & environment2026

Large Variations in the Transpiration of Sorghum Canopies Under High Evaporative Demand Are Positively Related to Water Use Efficiency.

Raphaël Pilloni, Kakkera Aparna, Zineb El Ghazzal, Soumyashree Kar, Amir Hajjarpoor, Wenli Xue, Pablo Affortit, William Ribière, Romiel Badji, Bassirou Sine and 3 more

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Article in Plant, cell & environment, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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13 authors.

Raphaël PilloniUniversité de Montpellier, IRD, DIADE, Montpellier, France.
Kakkera AparnaInternational Crop Research Institute in Semi-Arid Tropics, Hyderabad, India.
Zineb El GhazzalUniversité de Montpellier, IRD, DIADE, Montpellier, France.
Soumyashree KarIIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.
Amir HajjarpoorUniversité de Montpellier, IRD, DIADE, Montpellier, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6631-6521
Wenli XueUniversité de Montpellier, IRD, DIADE, Montpellier, France.
Pablo AffortitUniversité de Montpellier, IRD, DIADE, Montpellier, France.
William RibièreUniversité de Montpellier, IRD, DIADE, Montpellier, France.
Romiel BadjiCERAAS (Centre d'Etude Régional pour l'Amélioration de l'Adaptation à la Sécheresse), Thiès, Sénégal.
Bassirou SineCERAAS (Centre d'Etude Régional pour l'Amélioration de l'Adaptation à la Sécheresse), Thiès, Sénégal.
Jana KholovaInternational Crop Research Institute in Semi-Arid Tropics, Hyderabad, India.
François TardieuUniversité de Montpellier, INRAE, Laboratoire d'Ecophysiologie des Plantes sous Stress Environnementaux, Montpellier, France.
Vincent VadezUniversité de Montpellier, IRD, DIADE, Montpellier, France.

Funding

The senior and corresponding authors are in part supported by a grant the Make Our Planet Great Again (MOPGA) ICARUS project (Improve Crops in Arid Regions and Future Climates) funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche and by the Region Occitanie (ANR, grant ANR-17-MPGA-0011).
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transpiration restriction under high vapour pressure deficit (VPD), measured indoors with individual plants, increases water use efficiency (WUE). However, VPD is not the only factor driving transpiration, individual plants in a field rapidly become a canopy, and reports on the transpiration restriction versus WUE are scant. We analyzed the transpiration response to the evaporative demand (Penman-Monteith reference evapotranspiration, ET

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Plant TranspirationSorghumWaterGenotypePhotosynthesisPlant LeavesVapor PressureWaterclimate changedroughtlight interceptionlysimetersowing densitytranspiration restrictionvapour pressure deficit

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PMID41346064
PMCPMC12873524

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