Molecular responses to drought and heat stress in durum wheat
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Water scarcity and high temperature stress and their combination are the most important stresses experienced by durum wheat in the ield. The responses induced by drought and heat stress at transcriptional level have been described, but much less is known about plant response to simultaneous drought and heat stress, although this is the most common event in ield conditions. Several data indicate that in plants the molecular response to combined heat and drought stress activates networks which are different from that activated by the single heat or drought stress.
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