Contents Summary 32 I. The importance of plant carbon metabolism for climate change 32 II.
Rising atmospheric CO2 and carbon metabolism 33 III. Rising temperatures and carbon …

In the last decade, our understanding of the processes underlying plant response to drought,
at the molecular and whole-plant levels, has rapidly progressed. Here, we review that …

From the reviews of the 3rd edition:" The textbook of Walter Larcher (...) belongs certainly to
the most successful manuals that ever existed."(Photosynthetica, Czech Republic)"(...) it …

Water deficits cause a reduction in the rate of photosynthesis. Exposure to mild water
deficits, when relative water content (RWC) remains above 70%, primarily causes limitation …

Plants are often subjected to periods of soil and atmospheric water deficit during their life
cycle. The frequency of such phenomena is likely to increase in the future even outside …

In many plants, free proline accumulates in response to the imposition of a wide range of
biotic and abiotic stresses. Controversy has surrounded the extent to which this shift in …

At the whole plant level, the effect of stress is usually perceived as a decrease in
photosynthesis and growth. That is why this review is focused mainly on the effect of drought …

Drought is a multidimensional stress affecting plants at various levels of their organization.
The effect of and plant response to drought at the whole plant and crop level is most …

Abiotic stressful conditions of the environment such as soil salinity, drought, flood, heat, cold,
anaerobiosis, gaseous pollutants, radiation, and high levels of metals in the soil are major …

Forest trees are exposed to a myriad of single and combined stresses with varying strength
and duration throughout their lifetime, and many of the simultaneous and successive stress …