Flood adaptive traits and processes: an overview

Summary Unanticipated flooding challenges plant growth and fitness in natural and agricultural ecosystems. Here we describe mechanisms of developmental plasticity and metabolic modulation that underpin adaptive traits and acclimation responses to waterlogging of root systems and submergence of aerial tissues. This includes insights into processes that enhance ventilation of submerged organs. At the intersection between metabolism and growth, submergence survival strategies have evolved involving an ethylene‐driven and gibberellin‐enhanced module that regulates growth of submerged organs. Opposing regulation of this pathway is facilitated by a subgroup of ethylene‐response transcription factors (ERFs), which…

• NS
  National Science Foundation
• UD
  U.S. Department of Agriculture
• UU
  Universiteit Utrecht
• NO
  Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
• UO
  University of California, Riverside