Drought or/and heat-stress effects on seed filling in food crops: impacts on functional biochemistry, seed yields, and nutritional quality

A Sehgal, K Sita, KHM Siddique, R Kumar… - Frontiers in plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Drought (water deficits) and heat (high temperatures) stress are the prime abiotic
constraints, under the current and climate change scenario in future. Any further increase in …

[HTML][HTML] Research progress and perspective on drought stress in legumes: A review

M Nadeem, J Li, M Yahya, A Sher, C Ma… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Climate change, food shortage, water scarcity, and population growth are some of the
threatening challenges being faced in today's world. Drought stress (DS) poses a constant …

Drought stress in grain legumes during reproduction and grain filling

M Farooq, N Gogoi, S Barthakur… - Journal of Agronomy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Water scarcity is a major constraint limiting grain legume production particularly in the arid
and semi‐arid tropics. Different climate models have predicted changes in rainfall …

Sucrose metabolism: gateway to diverse carbon use and sugar signaling

YL Ruan - Annual review of plant biology, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Sucrose metabolism plays pivotal roles in development, stress response, and yield
formation, mainly by generating a range of sugars as metabolites to fuel growth and …

Effects of Drought, Heat and Their Interaction on the Growth, Yield and Photosynthetic Function of Lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus) Genotypes Varying in Heat and …

A Sehgal, K Sita, J Kumar, S Kumar, S Singh… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Rising temperatures and drought stress limit the growth and production potential of lentil
(Lens culinaris Medikus), particularly during reproductive growth and seed filling. The …

Plant drought stress: effects, mechanisms and management

M Farooq, A Wahid, N Kobayashi, D Fujita… - Sustainable …, 2009 - Springer
Scarcity of water is a severe environmental constraint to plant productivity. Drought-induced
loss in crop yield probably exceeds losses from all other causes, since both the severity and …

Sugar input, metabolism, and signaling mediated by invertase: roles in development, yield potential, and response to drought and heat

YL Ruan, Y **, YJ Yang, GJ Li, JS Boyer - Molecular Plant, 2010 - cell.com
Invertase (INV) hydrolyzes sucrose into glucose and fructose, thereby playing key roles in
primary metabolism and plant development. Based on their pH optima and sub-cellular …

The effect of drought and heat stress on reproductive processes in cereals

B Barnabás, K Jäger, A Fehér - Plant, cell & environment, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
As the result of intensive research and breeding efforts over the last 20 years, the yield
potential and yield quality of cereals have been greatly improved. Nowadays, yield safety …

Sucrose metabolism: regulatory mechanisms and pivotal roles in sugar sensing and plant development

K Koch - Current opinion in plant biology, 2004 - Elsevier
Sucrose cleavage is vital to multicellular plants, not only for the allocation of crucial carbon
resources but also for the initiation of hexose-based sugar signals in importing structures …

The challenge of improving nitrogen use efficiency in crop plants: towards a more central role for genetic variability and quantitative genetics within integrated …

B Hirel, J Le Gouis, B Ney… - Journal of experimental …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
In this review, recent developments and future prospects of obtaining a better understanding
of the regulation of nitrogen use efficiency in the main crop species cultivated in the world …