Plant responses to multifactorial stress combination

Human activity is causing a global change in plant environment that includes a significant increase in the number and intensity of different stress factors. These include combinations of multiple abiotic and biotic stressors that simultaneously or sequentially impact plants and microbiomes, causing a significant decrease in plant growth, yield and overall health. It was recently found that with the increasing number and complexity of stressors simultaneously impacting a plant, plant growth and survival decline dramatically, even if the level of each individual stress, involved in such 'multifactorial stress combination', is low enough not to have a significant effect. Here we highlight this new concept of…

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  Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences

  Award: MCB‐1936590
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  Division of Integrative Organismal Systems

  Awards: IOS‐2110017, IOS‐1932639