Tissue succulence in plants : Carrying water for climate change
Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier GmbH.. All rights reserved.
| Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of plant physiology. - 1979. - 289(2023) vom: 11. Okt., Seite 154081 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2023
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Journal of plant physiology |
| Schlagworte: | Journal Article Review |
| Zusammenfassung: | Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier GmbH.. All rights reserved. Tissue succulence in plants involves the storage of water in one or more organs or tissues to assist in maintaining water potentials on daily or seasonal time scales. This drought-avoidance or drought-resistance strategy allows plants to occupy diverse environments including arid regions, regions with rocky soils, epiphytic habitats, and saline soils. Climate-resilient strategies are of increasing interest in the context of the global climate crisis, which is leading to hotter and drier conditions in many regions throughout the globe. Here, we describe a short history of succulent plants, the basic concepts of tissue succulence, the anatomical diversity of succulent morphologies and associated adaptive traits, the evolutionary, phylogenetic, and biogeographical diversity of succulent plants, extinction risks to succulents due to poaching from their natural environments, and the myriad uses and applications of economically important succulent species and the products derived from them. Lastly, we discuss current prospects for engineering tissue succulence to improve salinity and drought tolerance in crops |
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| Beschreibung: | Date Revised 06.10.2023 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status Publisher |
| ISSN: | 1618-1328 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jplph.2023.154081 |