Mechanisms of woody-plant mortality under rising drought, CO2 and vapour pressure deficit

NG McDowell, G Sapes, A Pivovaroff… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Drought-associated woody-plant mortality has been increasing in most regions with multi-
decadal records and is projected to increase in the future, impacting terrestrial climate …

Drought and salinity stress responses and microbe-induced tolerance in plants

Y Ma, MC Dias, H Freitas - Frontiers in plant science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Drought and salinity are among the most important environmental factors that hampered
agricultural productivity worldwide. Both stresses can induce several morphological …

Thriving under stress: how plants balance growth and the stress response

H Zhang, Y Zhao, JK Zhu - Developmental Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Defense against stress and active suppression of growth are two complementary strategies
by which plants respond to adverse environments. Although beneficial for plant survival …

Starch as a determinant of plant fitness under abiotic stress

M Thalmann, D Santelia - New Phytologist, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Contents Summary 943 I. Introduction 943 II. Multiple functions of starch metabolism 944 III.
Starch metabolism during abiotic stress 945 IV. Enzymes involved in stress‐induced …

Effect of drought stress on sugar metabolism in leaves and roots of soybean seedlings

Y Du, Q Zhao, L Chen, X Yao, W Zhang… - Plant physiology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Sucrose is the main photosynthetic product in plants, and acts as a major energy substrate
and signaling regulator of plant growth. Furthermore, sucrose is involved in the responses to …

Understanding the roles of nonstructural carbohydrates in forest trees–from what we can measure to what we want to know

H Hartmann, S Trumbore - New phytologist, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Carbohydrates provide the building blocks for plant structures as well as versatile resources
for metabolic processes. The nonstructural carbohydrates (NSC), mainly sugars and starch …

Source-to-sink transport of sugar and regulation by environmental factors

R Lemoine, SL Camera, R Atanassova… - Frontiers in plant …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Source-to-sink transport of sugar is one of the major determinants of plant growth and relies
on the efficient and controlled distribution of sucrose (and some other sugars such as …

Mechanisms linking drought, hydraulics, carbon metabolism, and vegetation mortality

NG McDowell - Plant physiology, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Events of regional-scale vegetation mortality appear to be increasing in a variety of biomes
throughout the Earth and are frequently associated with increased temperatures, droughts …

Effects of abiotic stress on plants: a systems biology perspective

GR Cramer, K Urano, S Delrot, M Pezzotti… - BMC plant biology, 2011 - Springer
The natural environment for plants is composed of a complex set of abiotic stresses and
biotic stresses. Plant responses to these stresses are equally complex. Systems biology …

Dynamics of non‐structural carbohydrates in terrestrial plants: a global synthesis

J Martínez‐Vilalta, A Sala, D Asensio… - Ecological …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Plants store large amounts of non‐structural carbohydrates (NSC). While multiple functions
of NSC have long been recognized, the interpretation of NSC seasonal dynamics is often …