Plant Responses to Drought Stress

Drought Stress in Plants: An Overview.- Functional significance of morpho-anatomical traits in adaptive strategies against drought.- Xylem cavitation and embolism in plants living in water-limited ecosystems.- Regulation of root water uptake under drought stress conditions.- The response of photosynthesis to soil water stress.- Water use strategies of plants under drought conditions.- Drought effects on nutrient uptake and assimilation in vegetable crops.- Osmotic adjustment under drought conditions.- Antioxidant defenses against drought.- Understanding and exploiting plant hormone biology to enhance crop production under water scarcity.- Genome-wide transcriptional re-programming under drought stress.- Drought response in forest tree species: from the species to the gene.- Contribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis to plant drought tolerance. State of the art.- Future environmental constraints of drought and elevated CO2 will limit yield in N2 fixing alfalfa.- Promotion of plant drought tolerance by microbes.- Physiology of the yield under drought: lessons from studies with lupin.- Drought in deciduous fruit trees: implications for yield and fruit quality.