The impact of drought in plant metabolism: How to exploit tolerance mechanisms to increase crop production

D Kapoor, S Bhardwaj, M Landi, A Sharma… - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Plants are often exposed to unfavorable environmental conditions, for instance abiotic
stresses, which dramatically alter distribution of plant species among ecological niches and …

Phytohormones enhanced drought tolerance in plants: a coping strategy

A Ullah, H Manghwar, M Shaban, AH Khan… - … Science and Pollution …, 2018 - Springer
Drought stress is a severe environmental constraint among the emerging problems. Plants
are highly vulnerable to drought stress and a severe decrease in yield was recorded in the …

[HTML][HTML] Transcription factors and plants response to drought stress: current understanding and future directions

R Joshi, SH Wani, B Singh, A Bohra, ZA Dar… - Frontiers in plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Increasing vulnerability of plants to a variety of stresses such as drought, salt and extreme
temperatures poses a global threat to sustained growth and productivity of major crops. Of …

Insights into drought stress signaling in plants and the molecular genetic basis of cotton drought tolerance

T Mahmood, S Khalid, M Abdullah, Z Ahmed… - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Drought stress restricts plant growth and development by altering metabolic activity and
biological functions. However, plants have evolved several cellular and molecular …

General mechanisms of drought response and their application in drought resistance improvement in plants

Y Fang, L Xiong - Cellular and molecular life sciences, 2015 - Springer
Plants often encounter unfavorable environmental conditions because of their sessile
lifestyle. These adverse factors greatly affect the geographic distribution of plants, as well as …

Progress and perspective on drought and salt stress tolerance in cotton

A Abdelraheem, N Esmaeili, M O'Connell… - Industrial Crops and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Drought stress, caused by lack of precipitation or irrigation, is one of the most challenging
problems in crop production in the US and worldwide. Drought alone affects 45% of the …

Overexpression of a MYB Family Gene, OsMYB6, Increases Drought and Salinity Stress Tolerance in Transgenic Rice

Y Tang, X Bao, Y Zhi, Q Wu, Y Guo, X Yin… - Frontiers in plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
MYB transcription factors have been demonstrated to play key regulatory roles in plant
growth, development and abiotic stress response. However, knowledge concerning the …

Drought coping strategies in cotton: increased crop per drop

A Ullah, H Sun, X Yang, X Zhang - Plant biotechnology journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The growth and yield of many crops, including cotton, are affected by water deficit. Cotton
has evolved drought specific as well as general morpho‐physiological, biochemical and …

[HTML][HTML] Overexpression of a stress-responsive NAC transcription factor gene ONAC022 improves drought and salt tolerance in rice

Y Hong, H Zhang, L Huang, D Li, F Song - Frontiers in plant science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The NAC transcription factors play critical roles in regulating stress responses in plants.
However, the functions for many of the NAC family members in rice are yet to be identified. In …

Crop root responses to drought stress: molecular mechanisms, nutrient regulations, and interactions with microorganisms in the rhizosphere

J Kang, Y Peng, W Xu - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Roots play important roles in determining crop development under drought. Under such
conditions, the molecular mechanisms underlying key responses and interactions with the …