Editorial: Drought stress in legumes
Fecha
2022Versión
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Tipo
Artículo / Artikulua
Versión
Versión publicada / Argitaratu den bertsioa
Impacto
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10.3389/fpls.2022.1026157
Resumen
Plants are challenged by diverse environmental constraints, among which drought
stress is increasingly important. Meteorological models predict an increase in the areas
prone to drought in the future. Legumes are important sources of fiber, oils, and protein,
constituting an essential amenity in the global economy. Additionally, legumes
contribute to nitrogen input in the biosphere due to the ...
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Plants are challenged by diverse environmental constraints, among which drought
stress is increasingly important. Meteorological models predict an increase in the areas
prone to drought in the future. Legumes are important sources of fiber, oils, and protein,
constituting an essential amenity in the global economy. Additionally, legumes
contribute to nitrogen input in the biosphere due to their ability to establish symbiotic
interactions with diazotrophs, collectively named rhizobia. Therefore, efforts to decipher
the molecular, metabolic, physiological, and agronomic responses are crucial
contributing novel strategies to aid drought tolerance in legumes.
This Research Topic contains articles either providing new findings or discussing the
latest research concerning drought research in legumes, including one mini-review on
soybean tolerance to drought (Arya et al.) and seven original research papers dealing with
strategies to confer drought tolerance such as priming (Zhou et al.); studies on
intraspecific variation in traits associated with drought tolerance (Prince et al.); the
analysis of water use efficiency under terminal drought (Polania et al.); and the
contribution of a legume dehydrin to drought tolerance (Sun et al.); the functional
characterization of a LOX gene family (Mou et al.); the functional analysis of a soybean
APETALA2/ETHYLENE RESPONSIVE FACTOR (AP2/ERF) (Wang et al.); and a study
on AP2/ERF gene family in a tolerant desert legume (Zhao et al.). [--]
Materias
Drought stress,
Legumes
Editor
Frontiers Media
Publicado en
Frontiers in Plant Science, 13:1026157
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra/Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in Applied Biology - IMAB
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Entidades Financiadoras
AF work was financed by PICT-2020-02926 from FONCYT. Research in SRC lab is supported by DBT-Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship (BT/RLF/Re-entry/01/2018) and STARS Research Grant (MoE/STARS-1/508). SS work is supported by the CPR scheme of the International Centre of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) ICGEB_URY21_04_EC_2021 and the CSIC I+D program of CSIC (Uruguay) CSIC_I+D_2020_21. AF is thankful to National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET, Argentina), SS is thankful to the Uruguayan National System of Researchers (SNI, Uruguay) and the Basic Research Development Program (PEDECIBA, Uruguay). EG is thankful to the Navarra Government and the Public University of Navarra for research Furlan et al. 10.3389/fpls.2022.1026157 Frontiers in Plant Science 02 frontiersin.org funding (Spain). SC is thankful to the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Tirupati.