Abstract Cocoa ( Theobroma cacao ) seedlings are very sensitive to water stress during the nursery stage and early field establishment. Sawdust, carbonated rice husk, compost in following ratios (i) 60: 40: 0 – M1, (ii) 30: 10 M2, (iii) 20: 20 M3, (iv) 10: 30 M4, (v) 0: 40 M5, (vi) topsoil M6 as control were used investigate effect of growing media, stress, re-watering on growth, dry matter pro...

Among all fruit crops of horticultural importance, grapevines (Vitis vinifera L.) stand out as the most drought tolerant crop species whose tolerance is credited to their proficiency to recover from water stress in both the natural and vineyard growing conditions. However, information on the recovery responses is relatively scant. Studies were conducted to address this issue using potted vines ...

DNA methylation plays an essential role in plant responses to environmental stress. Since drought develops into a rising problem in rice cultivation, investigations on genome-wide DNA methylation in responses to drought stress and in-depth explorations of its association with drought-tolerance are required. For this study, 68 rice accessions were used for an evaluation of their osmotic-toleranc...

Heat shock proteins play an important role in plant stress tolerance and are mainly regulated by heat shock transcription factors (Hsfs). In this study, we generated transgenic rice over-expressing OsHsfA7 and carried out morphological observation and stress tolerance assays. Transgenic plants exhibited less, shorter lateral roots and root hair. Under salt treatment, over-expressing OsHsfA7 ric...

According to climate models, drier summers must be expected more frequently in 5 Central Europe during the next decades which may influence plant performance and 6 competition in grassland. The overall source-sink relations in plants, especially allocation of 7 solutes to aboveand below-ground parts, may be affected by drought. To investigate solute 8 export from a given leaf of broadleaf dock,...

According to climate models, drier summers must be expected more frequently in 5 Central Europe during the next decades which may influence plant performance and 6 competition in grassland. The overall source-sink relations in plants, especially allocation of 7 solutes to aboveand below-ground parts, may be affected by drought. To investigate solute 8 export from a given leaf of broadleaf dock,...