Physiological adjustments to enhance tolerance or avoidance of summer drought and winter
freezing were studied in shallow-to deep-rooted Patagonian cold desert shrubs. We …

Wood anatomy plays a key role in plants' ability to persist under drought and should
therefore predict demography. Plants balance their resource allocation among wood cell …

The coordination of plant leaf water potential (ΨL) regulation and xylem vulnerability to
embolism is fundamental for understanding the tradeoffs between carbon uptake and risk of …

Species-specific environmental adaptability results in different species having different
suitable distribution ranges in nature. Investigating the change of relative advantages in …

The predicted climate warming and more frequent and longer droughts are expected to
produce potentially severe water stresses in the boreal forest. The aim of this experiment …

Arid and semiarid ecosystems comprise approximately 40% of the global terrestrial surface
and play an important role in the carbon-climate system. However, despite their large …

Introduction Plants interact with plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB), especially under
stress condition in natural and agricultural systems. Although a potentially beneficial …

The annual growth and wood characteristics of tree species at southern Mediterranean
countries, and its relationship with climate variables are recently two important topics for the …

The whole-plant economic spectrum concept predicts that leaf and root traits evolve in
coordination to cope with environmental stresses. However, this hypothesis is difficult to test …

Simmondsia chinensis (jojoba) is an important industrial plant of arid regions generally
propagated by seeds or cuttings. Seed propagation has the problem that jojoba is a …