The agricultural sector must produce resilient and climate-smart crops to meet the increasing
needs of global food production. Recent advancements in elucidating the mechanistic basis …

Photosynthesis is a process that has got immense importance due to its unique role in
sustaining life on earth. Exposure to various biotic and abiotic stresses adversely affects the …

Plants face various adverse environmental conditions, particularly with the ongoing changes
in global climate, which drastically affect the growth, development and productivity of crops …

Novel stress tolerance strategies, such as heat and drought priming, are widely used in
plants to increase tolerance to subsequent stresses. To date, it is still not known whether …

Wheat is a critical crop for global food security, but its production is often limited by both
various abiotic stress forms-and events. The frequency of extreme events is increasing due …

Precipitation in China has a sharply uneven spatial-temporal distribution, which has caused
serious droughts and heavy floods in China. Using statistic and K-means clustering …

Enhancement of drought stress (DS) tolerance in plants has been reported with the separate
applications of melatonin (MT) and salicylic acid (SA). However, the synergistic effects of …

In recent years, serious drought-related disasters in China have received increased
attention due to their significant impacts. Assessing drought variations was critical to ensure …

Drought stress hinders the growth and development of crop plants and ultimately its
productivity. It is expected that drought stress will be frequent and intense in the future due to …

Global climate change tends to intensify water unavailability, especially in semi-arid regions,
directly impacting agricultural production. Cowpea is one of the crops with great socio …