Journal
PLANTS-BASEL
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/plants12010149
Keywords
flooding; roots; gas exchanges; oxidative stress; Triticum
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Inundation, excessive precipitation, or inadequate field drainage can lead to waterlogging of cultivated land. Climate change is expected to increase flooding events, which affects wheat production and leads to yield losses. Understanding changes in soil and plant physiology under excess water conditions is crucial due to the importance of wheat as a major food source.
Inundation, excessive precipitation, or inadequate field drainage can cause waterlogging of cultivated land. It is anticipated that climate change will increase the frequency, intensity, and unpredictability of flooding events. This stress affects 10-15 million hectares of wheat every year, resulting in 20-50% yield losses. Since this crop greatly sustains a population's food demands, providing ca. 20% of the world's energy and protein diets requirements, it is crucial to understand changes in soil and plant physiology under excess water conditions. Variations in redox potential, pH, nutrient availability, and electrical conductivity of waterlogged soil will be addressed, as well as their impacts in major plant responses, such as root system and plant development. Waterlogging effects at the leaf level will also be addressed, with a particular focus on gas exchanges, photosynthetic pigments, soluble sugars, membrane integrity, lipids, and oxidative stress.
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