Effects of combined abiotic stresses related to climate change on root growth in crops

M Sánchez-Bermúdez, JC Del Pozo… - Frontiers in plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Climate change is a major threat to crop productivity that negatively affects food security
worldwide. Increase in global temperatures are usually accompanied by drought, flooding …

Root involvement in plant responses to adverse environmental conditions

V Vives-Peris, MF Lopez-Climent, RM Perez-Clemente… - Agronomy, 2020 - mdpi.com
Climate change is altering the environment in which plants grow and survive. An increase in
worldwide Earth surface temperatures has been already observed, together with an …

Roots withstanding their environment: exploiting root system architecture responses to abiotic stress to improve crop tolerance

IT Koevoets, JH Venema, JTM Elzenga… - Frontiers in plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
To face future challenges in crop production dictated by global climate changes, breeders
and plant researchers collaborate to develop productive crops that are able to withstand a …

Root growth adaptation to climate change in crops

J Calleja-Cabrera, M Boter, L Oñate-Sánchez… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Climate change is threatening crop productivity worldwide and new solutions to adapt crops
to these environmental changes are urgently needed. Elevated temperatures driven by …

[HTML][HTML] How abiotic stress conditions affects plant roots

R Kul, M Ekinci, M Turan, S Ors, E Yildirim - Plant roots, 2020 - intechopen.com
Roots are generally subject to more abiotic stress than shoots. Therefore, they can be
affected by such stresses as much as, or even more, than above ground parts of a plant …

Root plasticity under abiotic stress

R Karlova, D Boer, S Hayes, C Testerink - Plant Physiology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abiotic stresses increasingly threaten existing ecological and agricultural systems across the
globe. Plant roots perceive these stresses in the soil and adapt their architecture …

Determinants of root system architecture for future‐ready, stress‐resilient crops

M Lombardi, L De Gara, F Loreto - Physiologia Plantarum, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change hampers food safety and food security. Crop breeding has been boosting
superior quantity traits such as yield, but roots have often been overlooked in spite of their …

Root system architecture and abiotic stress tolerance: current knowledge in root and tuber crops

MA Khan, DC Gemenet, A Villordon - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The challenge to produce more food for a rising global population on diminishing
agricultural land is complicated by the effects of climate change on agricultural productivity …

Enhancing rapeseed tolerance to heat and drought stresses in a changing climate: perspectives for stress adaptation from root system architecture

W Wu, BL Ma, JK Whalen - Advances in agronomy, 2018 - Elsevier
Globally, the increase in climatic variability is responsible for more frequent extreme heat
and drought stress events. Heat and water stress have a devastating impact on plant growth …

Understanding role of roots in plant response to drought: Way forward to climate‐resilient crops

A Kalra, S Goel, AA Elias - The Plant Genome, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Drought stress leads to a significant amount of agricultural crop loss. Thus, with changing
climatic conditions, it is important to develop resilience measures in agricultural systems …