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REVIEW article

Front. Ecol. Evol.
Sec. Ecophysiology
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fevo.2024.1452427
This article is part of the Research Topic Ecophysiology: a Tool to Aid Wildlife Conservation and Wellbeing View all articles

Drought -a Review

Provisionally accepted
Mudawi M. Elobeid Mudawi M. Elobeid 1,2Hanadi R. Aljabi Hanadi R. Aljabi 3Modhi O. Alotaibi Modhi O. Alotaibi 4Arwa Alhugail Arwa Alhugail 4Bernd Horneburg Bernd Horneburg 5Afrah E. Mohammed Afrah E. Mohammed 4*
  • 1 University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan
  • 2 Royal Commission of AlUla, Alula, Saudi Arabia
  • 3 Private Scholar, Baiersdorf, Germany
  • 4 Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • 5 University of Kassel, Kassel, Hesse, Germany

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    Drought is considered one of the most critical abiotic environmental stress which limits plant growth, development, and productivity. It constitutes a real threat to mankind, especially in dry areas worldwide. Against the negative effects of drought, plants manage this process with a complex set of related mechanisms. knowledge of plant responses and adaptation are more meaningful in plant breeding and genetic engineering for improving drought resistance species. This review will focus on drought-responses mechanisms and drought-adaptation, giving examples from plant species differing in their life-form, herbaceous and woody plants.Furthermore, the role of application for improving the capability of drought-stressed plants will also be highlighted. This review is of potential significance to researchers and those who wish to obtain a glimpse into the plant behaviour under drought conditions.

    Keywords: drought adaptive-strategies, drought-responses mechanisms, tree mortality, life-, crops

    Received: 20 Jun 2024; Accepted: 30 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Elobeid, Aljabi, Alotaibi, Alhugail, Horneburg and Mohammed. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Afrah E. Mohammed, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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