Living in drylands: Functional adaptations of trees and shrubs to cope with high temperatures and water scarcity

JJ Peguero-Pina, A Vilagrosa, D Alonso-Forn, JP Ferrio… - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
Plant functioning and survival in drylands are affected by the combination of high solar
radiation, high temperatures, low relative humidity, and the scarcity of available water. Many …

Water availability influences thermal safety margins for leaves

AM Cook, N Berry, KV Milner, A Leigh - Functional Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
One application of plant physiological heat tolerance measurements is the assessment of
vulnerability to increasing environmental temperatures under climatic change. A thermal …

High heat tolerance in plants from the Andean highlands: Implications for paramos in a warmer world

IV Leon-Garcia, E Lasso - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Tropical plant species are expected to have high heat tolerance reflecting phenotypic
adjustments to warm regions or their evolutionary adaptation history. However, tropical …

High-temperature tolerance of a tropical tree, Ficus insipida: methodological reassessment and climate change considerations

GH Krause, K Winter, B Krause, P Jahns… - Functional Plant …, 2010 - CSIRO Publishing
In view of anthropogenic global warming, heat tolerance of a neotropical pioneer tree, Ficus
insipida Willd., was determined. Sections of sun leaves from a mature tree and from …

Temperature-sensitive formation of chloroplast protrusions and stromules in mesophyll cells of Arabidopsis thaliana

A Holzinger, O Buchner, C Lütz, MR Hanson - Protoplasma, 2007 - Springer
In leaf mesophyll cells of transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana plants expressing GFP in the
chloroplast, stromules (stroma-filled tubules) with a length of up to 20 μm and a diameter of …

[HTML][HTML] The dose makes the poison: the longer the heat lasts, the lower the temperature for functional impairment and damage

G Neuner, O Buchner - Environmental and Experimental Botany, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate change increases the intensity and duration of heatwaves. Heat limits for plants are
commonly determined by a 30-minute test. This neglects the effect of heat-dose (intensity x …

[HTML][HTML] Drought affects the heat-hardening capacity of alpine plants as indicated by changes in xanthophyll cycle pigments, singlet oxygen scavenging, α-tocopherol …

O Buchner, T Roach, J Gertzen, S Schenk… - Environmental and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Alpine environments in Europe are increasingly affected by more erratic precipitation
patterns, and more frequent drought and heat waves. Heat-hardening capacity is a key …

Application of heat stress in situ demonstrates a protective role of irradiation on photosynthetic performance in alpine plants

O Buchner, M Stoll, M Karadar, I Kranner… - Plant, Cell & …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The impact of sublethal heat on photosynthetic performance, photosynthetic pigments and
free radical scavenging activity was examined in three high mountain species, R …

Estimating heat tolerance among plant species by two chlorophyll fluorescence parameters

JH Weng, MF Lai - Photosynthetica, 2005 - Springer
The heat tolerance of 8 temperate-and 1 subtropical-origin C 3 species as well as 17 tropical-
origin ones, including C 3, C 4, and CAM species, was estimated using both F 0-T curve and …

Differential responses of soil CO2 and N2O fluxes to experimental warming

J Zou, B Tobin, Y Luo, B Osborne - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2018 - Elsevier
Land-use conversions and elevated temperature can impact on carbon dioxide (CO 2) and
nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emissions, both of which are important greenhouse gasses (GHGs) …