Drought is a serious threat to the farming community, biasing the crop productivity in arid
and semi-arid regions of the world. Drought adversely affects seed germination, plant …

Ecologists have long studied patterns, directions and tempos of change, but there is a
pressing need to extend current understanding to empirical observations of abrupt changes …

Climate change is multi-faceted, and includes changing concentrations of greenhouse
gases in the atmosphere, rising temperatures, changes in precipitation patterns, and …

Tithonia diversifolia is an invasive weed commonly found in tropical ecosystems. In this
work, we investigate the influence of different abiotic environmental factors on the plant's …

Root exudates comprise a large variety of compounds released by plants into the
rhizosphere, including low-molecular-weight primary metabolites (particularly saccharides …

Metabolic regulation is one of the main mechanisms involved in the maintenance of cell
osmotic potential under abiotic stress. To date, metabolite profiling approaches have been …

The availability of carbon (C) from high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and
anthropogenic release of nitrogen (N) is increasing, but these increases are not paralleled …

Roots play important roles in determining crop development under drought. Under such
conditions, the molecular mechanisms underlying key responses and interactions with the …

Besides other deleterious effects, drought elevates ethylene level too in plants. Increased
ethylene concentration reduces root elongation and development that consequently retard …

Global change impacts on biogeochemical cycles have been widely studied, but our
understanding of whether the responses of plant elemental composition to global change …