Increased heat and drought stress under climate change and their impact on physiological growth and development of crops: A review

Abiotic stresses are major constraints to crop production and food security worldwide, the increasing trend and projection under climate change pose further challenge and warrants close attention of researchers and policy makers. Heat and drought are judged as most common stresses having adverse imp...

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Main Authors: GIRJA SHANKER TIWARI, NAVNEET PAREEK, KIRAN P RAVERKAR
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Language:English
Published: Indian Council of Agricultural Research 2018-12-01
Series:The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
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Online Access:https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/85374
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description Abiotic stresses are major constraints to crop production and food security worldwide, the increasing trend and projection under climate change pose further challenge and warrants close attention of researchers and policy makers. Heat and drought are judged as most common stresses having adverse impact on growth and productivity of the crops. Understanding of the physiological, biochemical, and ecological responses of these stresses is prerequisite to develop management practices. The plant responses to these stresses can be categorized into morphological, physiological, and biochemical responses quantified to assess their impact. Though plants have capability to modify their growth pattern and physiological process to cope with heat and drought stresses but it costs dearly in terms of overall performance and yield, therefore it is a must to understand plant response to various stresses in order to develop suitable adaptation strategies. This review focuses on the plant responses towards heat and drought stresses pointing on the commonalities and differences. Due to physical damages, physiological disruptions, and biochemical changes under limited water supply and elevated temperatures there is negative impact on crop growth and yields. Both conventional and modern approaches are desired to deal with heat and drought stresses. A holistic approach including short term strategy comprising management practices promoting in-situ moisture conservation, water harvesting, micro environment modification etc, and long term strategies including developing heat and drought tolerant varieties, developing irrigation infrastructure, permanent change in land configuration, etc are required. The recent government. initiative like PMKSY aiming irrigation to each field (Har Khet Ko Pani) through water harvesting, conveyance, drip irrigation in the back drop of time bound target of doubling farmers income will be a big boost to cope heat and drought stress and to induce climatic resilience.
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spelling doaj.art-2d11855dd47d440db300697328e6aa5b2023-07-20T11:54:57ZengIndian Council of Agricultural ResearchThe Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences0019-50222394-33192018-12-01881210.56093/ijas.v88i12.85374Increased heat and drought stress under climate change and their impact on physiological growth and development of crops: A reviewGIRJA SHANKER TIWARI0NAVNEET PAREEK1KIRAN P RAVERKAR2Ph D Scholar, G B Pant University of Agricultural and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand 263 145Professor, G B Pant University of Agricultural and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand 263 145Professor, Department of Soil Science, G B Pant University of Agricultural and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand 263 145Abiotic stresses are major constraints to crop production and food security worldwide, the increasing trend and projection under climate change pose further challenge and warrants close attention of researchers and policy makers. Heat and drought are judged as most common stresses having adverse impact on growth and productivity of the crops. Understanding of the physiological, biochemical, and ecological responses of these stresses is prerequisite to develop management practices. The plant responses to these stresses can be categorized into morphological, physiological, and biochemical responses quantified to assess their impact. Though plants have capability to modify their growth pattern and physiological process to cope with heat and drought stresses but it costs dearly in terms of overall performance and yield, therefore it is a must to understand plant response to various stresses in order to develop suitable adaptation strategies. This review focuses on the plant responses towards heat and drought stresses pointing on the commonalities and differences. Due to physical damages, physiological disruptions, and biochemical changes under limited water supply and elevated temperatures there is negative impact on crop growth and yields. Both conventional and modern approaches are desired to deal with heat and drought stresses. A holistic approach including short term strategy comprising management practices promoting in-situ moisture conservation, water harvesting, micro environment modification etc, and long term strategies including developing heat and drought tolerant varieties, developing irrigation infrastructure, permanent change in land configuration, etc are required. The recent government. initiative like PMKSY aiming irrigation to each field (Har Khet Ko Pani) through water harvesting, conveyance, drip irrigation in the back drop of time bound target of doubling farmers income will be a big boost to cope heat and drought stress and to induce climatic resilience.https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/85374Climate changeCrop productionDroughtHeat stressPlant responsesStress management
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Increased heat and drought stress under climate change and their impact on physiological growth and development of crops: A review
The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
Climate change
Crop production
Drought
Heat stress
Plant responses
Stress management
title Increased heat and drought stress under climate change and their impact on physiological growth and development of crops: A review
title_full Increased heat and drought stress under climate change and their impact on physiological growth and development of crops: A review
title_fullStr Increased heat and drought stress under climate change and their impact on physiological growth and development of crops: A review
title_full_unstemmed Increased heat and drought stress under climate change and their impact on physiological growth and development of crops: A review
title_short Increased heat and drought stress under climate change and their impact on physiological growth and development of crops: A review
title_sort increased heat and drought stress under climate change and their impact on physiological growth and development of crops a review
topic Climate change
Crop production
Drought
Heat stress
Plant responses
Stress management
url https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/85374
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