Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-3-2024
Keywords
omics integration, water-stress, herbivore-pressure, resilience, stress priming
Abstract
Introduction: Plants are constantly exposed to a diverse spectrum of environmental stressors that typically occur concurrently as multifactorial challenges, both spatially and temporally (Joshi et al., 2024). These stressors include abiotic stresses, such as drought, flooding, salinity, nutrient deficiencies, metal toxicity and extreme temperatures, as well as biotic pressures such as herbivory, pathogen attacks, and inter and intraspecific competition (Porter et al., 2020; González Guzmán et al., 2022). Drought and herbivory are arguably among the most critical factors that limit crop productivity in agricultural settings (Gautam et al., 2024), making it imperative to understand plant responses to their combined effects. While conventional research has tended to examine plant responses to these stressors individually, in both natural and agricultural settings, plants frequently encounter multiple stresses either simultaneously or sequentially, leading to complex interactions with consequences that cascade to multiple trophic levels.
Citation
Shafi I, Gautam M and Kariyat R (2024) Integrating ecophysiology and omics to unlock crop response to drought and herbivory stress. Front. Plant Sci. 15:1500773. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1500773
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