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Droughts
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Drought
Prolonged dry periods in natural climate cycle. They are slow-onset phenomena caused by rainfall deficit combined with other predisposing factors.
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Review
2016
Review
2016
Abiotic Stress Signaling and Responses in Plants
Jian‐Kang Zhu
Cell
2016
Corpus ID: 3937474
Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
Global warming and changes in drought
K. Trenberth
,
A. Dai
,
+4 authors
J. Sheffield
2014
Corpus ID: 29287382
How is drought changing as the climate changes? Several recent papers in the scientific literature have focused on this question…
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Review
2011
Review
2011
Plant drought stress: effects, mechanisms and management
M. Farooq
,
M. Farooq
,
A. Wahid
,
N. Kobayashi
,
D. Fujita
,
S. M. Basra
Agronomy for Sustainable Development
2011
Corpus ID: 12066792
Scarcity of water is a severe environmental constraint to plant productivity. Drought-induced loss in crop yield probably exceeds…
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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index
S. Vicente‐Serrano
,
S. Beguerı́a
,
J. López‐Moreno
2009
Corpus ID: 3826822
Abstract The authors propose a new climatic drought index: the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI). The…
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Review
2008
Review
2008
Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?
N. McDowell
,
W. Pockman
,
+8 authors
E. Yépez
New Phytologist
2008
Corpus ID: 5024809
Severe droughts have been associated with regional-scale forest mortality worldwide. Climate change is expected to exacerbate…
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Review
2006
Review
2006
Gene networks involved in drought stress response and tolerance.
Kazuo Shinozaki
,
K. Yamaguchi-Shinozaki
Journal of Experimental Botany
2006
Corpus ID: 15667594
Plants respond to survive under water-deficit conditions via a series of physiological, cellular, and molecular processes…
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Europe-wide reduction in primary productivity caused by the heat and drought in 2003
P. Ciais
,
M. Reichstein
,
+30 authors
R. Valentini
Nature
2005
Corpus ID: 4426569
Future climate warming is expected to enhance plant growth in temperate ecosystems and to increase carbon sequestration. But…
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Review
2002
Review
2002
Salt and drought stress signal transduction in plants.
Jian‐Kang Zhu
Annual Review of Plant Biology
2002
Corpus ID: 3917645
Salt and drought stress signal transduction consists of ionic and osmotic homeostasis signaling pathways, detoxification (i.e…
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Review
1993
Review
1993
THE RELATIONSHIP OF DROUGHT FREQUENCY AND DURATION TO TIME SCALES
T. Mckee
,
N. Doesken
,
J. Kleist
1993
Corpus ID: 129950974
1.0 INTRODUCTION Five practical issues become important in any analysis of drought. These include: 1) time scale, 2) probability…
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Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Rapid determination of free proline for water-stress studies
L. S. Bates
,
R. Waldren
,
I. Teare
Plant and Soil
1973
Corpus ID: 8693238
SummaryProline, which increases proportionately faster than other amino acids in plants under water stress, has been suggested as…
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