Constraints and prospects of improving cowpea productivity to ensure food, nutritional security and environmental sustainability

OI Omomowo, OO Babalola - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Providing safe and secure food for an increasing number of people globally is challenging.
Co** with such a human population by merely applying the conventional agricultural …

Climate change and allergic disease

L Bielory, K Lyons, R Goldberg - Current allergy and asthma reports, 2012 - Springer
Allergies are prevalent throughout the United States and impose a substantial quality of life
and economic burden. The potential effect of climate change has an impact on allergic …

Variation in relative water content, proline accumulation and stress gene expression in two cowpea landraces under drought

Z Zegaoui, S Planchais, C Cabassa, R Djebbar… - Journal of Plant …, 2017 - Elsevier
Many landraces of cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.] are adapted to particular
geographical and climatic conditions. Here we describe two landraces grown respectively in …

[HTML][HTML] Drought tolerance in cowpea species is driven by less sensitivity of leaf gas exchange to water deficit and rapid recovery of photosynthesis after rehydration

R Rivas, HM Falcão, RV Ribeiro, EC Machado… - South African Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Cowpea grains are the main protein source for many people in semi-arid regions. The goal
of this study was to study the in vivo photosynthetic behavior of two cowpea cultivars under …

Proteomics, physiological, and biochemical analysis of cross tolerance mechanisms in response to heat and water stresses in soybean

R Katam, S Shokri, N Murthy, SK Singh, P Suravajhala… - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Water stress (WS) and heat stress (HS) have a negative effect on soybean plant growth and
crop productivity. Changes in the physiological characteristics, proteome, and specific …

Consideration of combined stress: a crucial paradigm for improving multiple stress tolerance in plants

R Mahalingam - Combined stresses in plants: Physiological, molecular …, 2015 - Springer
In the wake of shrinking arable land and widespread changes in climate, global agriculture
is threatened. Global losses in agricultural production due to abiotic stresses are estimated …

[KİTAP][B] Stress ecology: environmental stress as ecological driving force and key player in evolution

CEW Steinberg - 2012 - books.google.com
Not all stress is stressful; instead, it appears that stress in the environment, below the
mutation threshold, is essential for many subtle manifestations of population structures and …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of UV-B irradiation on photosynthetic performance and chloroplast membrane components in Oryza sativa L.

FC Lidon, JC Ramalho - Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B …, 2011 - Elsevier
The impact of UV-B radiation on photosynthetic related parameters was studied in Oryza
sativa L. cv. Safari plants, after an UV-B irradiation performed 1 h per day for 7 days …

The Response of Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) Plants to Three Abiotic Stresses Applied with Increasing Intensity: Hypoxia, Salinity, and Water Deficit

J Jayawardhane, JC Goyali, S Zafari, AU Igamberdiev - Metabolites, 2022 - mdpi.com
Exposing plants to gradually increasing stress and to abiotic shock represents two different
phenomena. The knowledge on plants' responses following gradually increasing stress is …

Impacts of climate change on soybean production under different treatments of field experiments considering the uncertainty of general circulation models

HA Araji, A Wayayok, AM Bavani, E Amiri… - Agricultural Water …, 2018 - Elsevier
Earth is faced with dramatic changes in the weather systems, which leads to climate change.
Climate change affects water resources and crop production. In this study, five and seven …