Rooting in the Desert: A Developmental Overview on Desert Plants. [PDF]
Genes (Basel), 2021 Plants, as sessile organisms, have evolved a remarkable developmental plasticity to cope with their changing environment. When growing in hostile desert conditions, plants have to grow and thrive in heat and drought. This review discusses how desert plants have adapted their root system architecture (RSA) to cope with scarce water availability and poor
Kirschner GK, Xiao TT, Blilou I.
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Bioprospecting Desert Plants for Endophytic and Biostimulant Microbes: A Strategy for Enhancing Agricultural Production in a Hotter, Drier Future [PDF]
Biology, 2021 Deserts are challenging places for plants to survive in due to low nutrient availability, drought and heat stress, water stress, and herbivory. Endophytes—microbes that colonize and infect plant tissues without causing apparent disease—may contribute to ...
Qiuwei Zhang, James F. White
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Convergent Variations in the Leaf Traits of Desert Plants [PDF]
Plants, 2020 Convergence is commonly caused by environmental filtering, severe climatic conditions and local disturbance. The basic aim of the present study was to understand the pattern of leaf traits across diverse desert plant species in a common garden, in ...
Muhammad Adnan Akram +7 more
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Factors driving the biomass and species richness of desert plants in northern Xinjiang China. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 The desert ecosystem is an important part of the terrestrial ecosystem. Accurate estimations of the biomass and species richness of desert plants are of great value for maintaining ecosystem stability; however, current assessments remain a challenge due ...
Fei C, Dong YQ, An SZ.
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Effects of Heavy Metal Stress on Physiology, Hydraulics, and Anatomy of Three Desert Plants in the Jinchang Mining Area, China. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 The physiological mechanisms and phytoremediation effects of three kinds of native quinoa in a desert mining area were studied. We used two different types of local soils (native soil and tailing soil) to analyze the changes in the heavy metal content ...
Gao T +9 more
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Comparative Study of the Rhizosphere and Root Endosphere Microbiomes of Cholistan Desert Plants. [PDF]
Front Microbiol, 2021 Microbial communities associated with the rhizosphere and roots of desert halophytes play an important role in plants’ growth and development. Very limited information has been available on the microbial diversity of arid environments of Pakistan.
Mukhtar S, Mehnaz S, Malik KA.
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Environmental Sciences Europe, 2023 Background The interactions between rhizosphere microbial community and ephemeral desert plants strongly affect the ecological protection, restoration and reconstruction in deserts.
Yang Yang +3 more
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Diversity, 2023 Drought stress profoundly affects native desert plants’ survival and performance. Among all the abiotic stresses, drought is considered a major constraint that influences the structure and functions of desert ecosystems.
Tareq A. Madouh, Ali M. Quoreshi
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Vein Network and Climatic Factors Predict the Leaf Economic Spectrum of Desert Plants in Xinjiang, China [PDF]
Plants, 2023 The leaf economic spectrum (LES) has been repeatedly verified with regional and global datasets. However, the LES of desert plants and its drivers has not been fully explored at the species level.
Yi Du +4 more
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Effects of temperature on the cuticular transpiration barrier of two desert plants with water-spender and water-saver strategies. [PDF]
J Exp Bot, 2019 The efficacy of the cuticular transpiration barrier and its resistance to elevated temperatures are significantly higher in a typical water-saver than in a water-spender plant growing in hot desert.
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