Background Plants have adapted to survive seasonal life-threatening frost and drought.
However, the timing and frequency of such events are impacted by climate change …

Resurrection plants are able to deal with complete dehydration of their leaves and then
recover normal metabolic activity after rehydration. Only a few resurrection species are …

Reduced precipitation treatments often are used in field experiments to explore the effects of
drought on plant productivity and species composition. However, in seasonally snow …

Globally, herbicide resistance in weeds poses a threat to food security. Resistance evolves
rapidly through the co‐option of a suite of physiological mechanisms that evolved to allow …

A core tenet of functional ecology is that the vast phenotypic diversity observed in the plant
kingdom could be partly generated by a trade‐off between the ability of plants to grow …

The frequency and intensity of the occurrence of drought (D) events during winter are
increasing in most areas of China. To explore the interactive effects of D and freezing …

Nonstructural carbohydrates (NSCs) are carbon compounds that serve a large variety of
purposes, which makes it hard to disentangle how their concentrations change in response …

Premise of the Study Freezing and drought both result in cellular dehydration, and similar
physiological responses to these stressors may result in cross acclimation, whereby prior …

At the level of individual plants, exposure to prior freezing can increase drought tolerance, in
a phenomenon referred to as cross acclimation. However, it is unclear how cross …

Climate models predict that plants will face extreme fluctuations in water availability in future
global change scenarios. Then, forage production will be more frequently subjected to the …