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ReviewThe New phytologist2026

The incredible vulnerability that reproduction poses for plant species in a warming world.

Derek A Denney, Annabelle L Taylor, Emily B Josephs, John H Willis, David B Lowry

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Review in The New phytologist, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Derek A Denney *Plant Resilience Institute, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824, MI, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5732-5656
Annabelle L Taylor *Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, 27708, NC, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3888-6841
Emily B JosephsPlant Resilience Institute, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824, MI, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0889-1130
John H WillisDepartment of Biology, Duke University, Durham, 27708, NC, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8368-234X
David B LowryPlant Resilience Institute, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824, MI, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8182-1059

Funding

Division of Integrative Organismal Systems IOS-2220929Plant Resilience Institute
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Temperatures are rising globally and threatening the persistence of natural plant populations. Elevated temperatures disrupt gametogenesis, fertilization, and seed filling, often at lower thresholds than those affecting photosynthesis, growth, or survival. While crop scientists have found that key reproductive stages are particularly vulnerable to heat stress across plant systems, ecological and evolutionary studies have largely focused on other fitness metrics to estimate populations' resilience to warming. We advocate for integrating pollen, ovule, and seed filling developmental metrics into ecological and evolutionary studies to improve predictions of plant population dynamics under future climates. Such studies will offer not only a better understanding of how natural populations will respond to increasing temperature stress but also are likely to reveal novel mechanistic insights that can be utilized to improve crop resilience in a warming world.

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Global WarmingPlantsPollenReproductionSeedsfitnessheat stresspollen developmentreproductionseed filling

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PMID42432422
PMCPMC13491290

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