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4 Citations
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25 September 2023

Drought is the main meteorological disaster that affects the yield and quality of spring maize on the Loess Plateau. This study used data of the spring maize growth period, relative soil humidity, and yield at 18 agricultural meteorological observati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,512 Views
18 Pages

21 April 2023

With the intensification of global warming, food production will face serious drought risk. In view of the insufficient applicability of the existing crop drought index, a standardized crop water deficit index (SCWDI) was constructed based on the con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,104 Views
25 Pages

Drought Sensitivity of Spring Wheat Cultivars Shapes Rhizosphere Microbial Community Patterns in Response to Drought

  • Jing Fang,
  • Gongfu Shi,
  • Shuli Wei,
  • Jie Ma,
  • Xiangqian Zhang,
  • Jianguo Wang,
  • Liyu Chen,
  • Ying Liu,
  • Xiaoqing Zhao and
  • Zhanyuan Lu

23 October 2023

Drought is the most important natural disaster affecting crop growth and development. Crop rhizosphere microorganisms can affect crop growth and development, enhance the effective utilization of nutrients, and resist adversity and hazards. In this pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
972 Views
18 Pages

Drought Characteristics during Spring Sowing along the Great Wall Based on the MCI

  • Guofang Wang,
  • Juanling Wang,
  • Wei Sun,
  • Mingjing Huang,
  • Jiancheng Zhang,
  • Xuefang Huang and
  • Wuping Zhang

24 September 2024

The region along the Great Wall is a typical dryland agricultural zone, serving as both a potential area for staple grain production and a key region for specialty crops like coarse grains and cool-climate vegetables. Studying the characteristics of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,770 Views
17 Pages

27 October 2023

Agricultural production is highly susceptible to the impact of drought. How to improve agricultural drought-monitoring capability has always been a research hotspot. Based on multi-source remote-sensing data, a novel comprehensive drought index (CDI)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,112 Views
17 Pages

19 July 2021

Inter-annual variability of hydro-meteorological variables indirectly influence soil moisture conditions in winter and early spring seasons. The interactions between temperature changes and drought conditions are studied by an application of statisti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,324 Views
13 Pages

Impact of Drought Stress on Yield-Related Agronomic Traits of Different Genotypes in Spring Wheat

  • Zihan Xu,
  • Xiangjun Lai,
  • Yi Ren,
  • Hongmei Yang,
  • Haobo Wang,
  • Chunsheng Wang,
  • Jianqiang Xia,
  • Zhenlong Wang,
  • Zhenyu Yang and
  • Hongwei Geng
  • + 2 authors

30 November 2023

Drought stress is one of the major abiotic stresses to wheat worldwide, with negative effects on wheat growth and yield. Assessing genetic variation and drought stress tolerance of key agronomic and physiological traits of spring wheat and screening...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,323 Views
18 Pages

1 February 2023

Yunnan Province in Southwest China is vulnerable to droughts due to its distinctive topography and local climate. Spring drought in Yunnan (SDY), which accounts for 70% of all drought events, causes the most severe devastation. By examining the varia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
704 Views
20 Pages

Distribution Characteristics of Spring Maize Meteorological Drought in Different Climatic Regions of Inner Mongolia Based on Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

  • Xiujuan Yang,
  • Shuaishuai Qiao,
  • Feng Yang,
  • Yuyuan Huang,
  • Congying Han,
  • Xiao Chang,
  • Shuiyuan Hao,
  • Hui Qian,
  • Xinwei Feng and
  • Na Li

24 March 2025

Drought is a major meteorological disaster that affects the growth of spring maize in Inner Mongolia. Understanding the spatiotemporal characteristics of drought is crucial for maintaining crop production. This study categorized Inner Mongolia into f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,531 Views
20 Pages

25 August 2023

Northeast China plays a pivotal role in producing commodity grains. The precipitation and temperature distribution during the growth season is impacted by geographical and climate factors, rendering the region vulnerable to drought. However, relying...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,368 Views
20 Pages

6 October 2023

This study simulated the canopy reflectance of spring wheat at five distinct growth stages (jointing, booting, heading, flowering, and pustulation) and under four drought scenarios (no drought, mild drought, moderate drought, and severe drought) usin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,735 Views
22 Pages

3 September 2024

Maize (Zea mays L.) is one of the most important grain crops in the world. Drought caused by climate change in recent years may greatly threaten water supply and crop production, even if the drought only lasts for a few days or weeks. Therefore, effe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
5,928 Views
20 Pages

Severe Drought in the Spring of 2020 in Poland—More of the Same?

  • Iwona Pińskwar,
  • Adam Choryński and
  • Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz

26 October 2020

Two consecutive dry years, 2018 and 2019, a warm winter in 2019/20, and a very dry spring in 2020 led to the development of severe drought in Poland. In this paper, changes in the Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) for the int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,552 Views
14 Pages

VCI-Based Analysis on Spatiotemporal Variations of Spring Drought in China

  • Liang Liang,
  • Siyi Qiu,
  • Juan Yan,
  • Yanyan Shi and
  • Di Geng

The analysis of spatiotemporal variations in drought is important for environmental monitoring and agricultural production. In this study, the spring vegetative drought conditions in China were analyzed by using the vegetation condition index (VCI) a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,092 Views
17 Pages

The Response Mechanism and Threshold of Spring Wheat to Rapid Drought

  • Fei Chen,
  • Heling Wang,
  • Funian Zhao,
  • Runyuan Wang,
  • Yue Qi,
  • Kai Zhang,
  • Hong Zhao,
  • Guoying Tang and
  • Yang Yang

7 April 2022

In order to deeply understand the effect mechanism of rapid drought stress on the physiological and biochemical properties of crop leaves and determine drought thresholds, the potted spring wheat under two water treatments, adequate water supply and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,392 Views
20 Pages

28 June 2022

Drought has great negative impacts on crop growth and production. In order to select appropriate drought indices to quantify drought influences on crops to minimize the risk of drought-related crops as much as possible, climate and spring wheat yield...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,931 Views
14 Pages

Effects of Spring Drought and Nitrogen Addition on Productivity and Community Composition of Degraded Grasslands

  • Shaoning Li,
  • Shaowei Lu,
  • Xiaohui Li,
  • Xingchen Hou,
  • Xi Zhao,
  • Xiaotian Xu and
  • Na Zhao

31 July 2023

To explore whether there were differences among the patterns of response of grasslands with different levels of degradation to extreme drought events and nitrogen addition, three grasslands along a degradation gradient (extremely, moderately, and lig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
438 Views
17 Pages

8 October 2025

Soil respiration (Rs), the second largest carbon flux in terrestrial ecosystems, critically regulates the turnover of soil carbon pools. However, its seasonal and annual responses to extreme events in monsoon forests remain unclear. This study used a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,099 Views
16 Pages

31 March 2023

Agricultural drought often refers to water deficit in soil caused by a shortage of precipitation during a specific period in crop growing season, thus leading to final crop production failure. However, soil water content during planting may be relate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
5,529 Views
26 Pages

Variation Among Spring Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Genotypes in Response to the Drought Stress. II—Root System Structure

  • Maciej T. Grzesiak,
  • Natalia Hordyńska,
  • Anna Maksymowicz,
  • Stanisław Grzesiak and
  • Magdalena Szechyńska-Hebda

8 December 2019

(1) Background: The study analyzed wheat morphological traits to assess the role of roots structure in the tolerance of drought and to recognize the mechanisms of root structure adjustment to dry soil environment. (2) Methods: Root-box and root-baske...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,188 Views
21 Pages

24 May 2024

East Asia is a region that is highly vulnerable to drought disasters during the spring season, as this period is critical for planting, germinating, and growing staple crops such as wheat, maize, and rice. The climate in East Asia is significantly in...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,940 Views
15 Pages

Drought Impact on Leaf Phenology and Spring Frost Susceptibility in a Quercus robur L. Provenance Trial

  • Ivica Čehulić,
  • Krunoslav Sever,
  • Ida Katičić Bogdan,
  • Anamarija Jazbec,
  • Željko Škvorc and
  • Saša Bogdan

11 January 2019

Research highlights: The susceptibility of oaks to late spring and early autumn frosts is directly related to their leaf phenology. Drought may alter the leaf phenology and therefore frost tolerance of oaks. However, the effects of drought on oak lea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,685 Views
16 Pages

Preceding Fall Drought Conditions and Overwinter Precipitation Effects on Spring Wildland Fire Activity in Canada

  • Chelene Hanes,
  • Mike Wotton,
  • Douglas G. Woolford,
  • David L. Martell and
  • Mike Flannigan

23 June 2020

Spring fire activity has increased in parts of Canada, particularly in the west, prompting fire managers to seek indicators of potential activity before the fire season starts. The overwintering adjustment of the Canadian Fire Weather Index System&rs...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,723 Views
37 Pages

The contemporary distribution of crenobiontic endemics in central Texas is enigmatic because only some springs are occupied by crenobionts despite other unoccupied springs having seemingly suitable habitats. In the absence of complete paleo-records,...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,336 Views
14 Pages

Physiological and Dry Matter Characteristics of Spring Maize in Northeast China under Drought Stress

  • Peng Jiang,
  • Fu Cai,
  • Zi-Qi Zhao,
  • Ying Meng,
  • Ling-Yun Gao and
  • Tian-Hong Zhao

2 November 2018

This paper examined impacts of drought on both physiological and dry matter characteristics of spring maize grown in Liaoning, China in 2016. We compared responses of dry matters of various parts, yield components, leaf photosynthesis, and transpirat...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,987 Views
14 Pages

Effects of Spring Warming and Drought Events on the Autumn Growth of Larix kaempferi Seedlings

  • Hyeonji Kim,
  • Heejae Jo,
  • Gwang-Jung Kim,
  • Hyung-Sub Kim and
  • Yowhan Son

19 June 2022

High temperatures and droughts following winter dormancy can negatively affect seedling growth and mortality. An open-field experiment was conducted to study the growth and mortality of Larix kaempferi seedlings in response to spring warming and drou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,676 Views
18 Pages

24 August 2022

Cereal production is becoming challenging, given ongoing climate change. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are discussed to mitigate effects of drought for plants and enhance nutrient uptake. Thus, we investigated the impacts of drought and mycorrhi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,508 Views
18 Pages

Influence of SDHI Seed Treatment on the Physiological Conditions of Spring Barley Seedlings under Drought Stress

  • Dominika Radzikowska,
  • Monika Grzanka,
  • Przemysław Łukasz Kowalczewski,
  • Romana Głowicka-Wołoszyn,
  • Andrzej Blecharczyk,
  • Marcin Nowicki and
  • Zuzanna Sawinska

Seed treatments help reduce the pathogen load and thus improve the condition of plants from their earliest developmental stages, but they can have impacts beyond their basic fungicide protection role. In this study, we investigated how seven spring b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,593 Views
15 Pages

Monitoring the Spring 2021 Drought Event in Taiwan Using Multiple Satellite-Based Vegetation and Water Indices

  • Chien-Ben Chou,
  • Min-Chuan Weng,
  • Huei-Ping Huang,
  • Yu-Cheng Chang,
  • Ho-Chin Chang and
  • Tzu-Ying Yeh

26 August 2022

The monitoring of droughts is practically important yet challenging due to the complexity of the phenomena. The occurrence of drought involves changes in meteorological conditions, vegetation coverage and soil moisture. To advance the techniques for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,042 Views
17 Pages

Evaluation of Spring Wheat (20 Varieties) Adaptation to Soil Drought during Seedlings Growth Stage

  • Jolanta Biesaga-Kościelniak,
  • Agnieszka Ostrowska,
  • Maria Filek,
  • Michał Dziurka,
  • Piotr Waligórski,
  • Magdalena Mirek and
  • Janusz Kościelniak

The effect of soil drought (10 days) on the growth of plants, the accumulation of water and leakage of electrolytes, gas exchange, the contents of chl a + b and carotenoids in leaves and photochemical activity of photosystem II was studied at the see...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,867 Views
13 Pages

28 March 2022

Agricultural drought definition focuses on the effect of water deficit during the crop growth period on the final crop yield. However, it is difficult to quantify the dynamic process for agricultural drought precisely during the crop growing season a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,401 Views
23 Pages

22 August 2020

Spring soil moisture (SM) is of great importance for monitoring agricultural drought and waterlogging in farmland areas. While winter snow cover has an important impact on spring SM, relatively little research has examined the correlation between win...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,336 Views
15 Pages

10 October 2022

The effects of prolonged heat and drought stress and cool growing conditions on dough mixing quality traits of spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) were studied in fifty-six genotypes grown in 2017 and 2018 in southern Sweden. The mixing parameters ev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,144 Views
14 Pages

Effectiveness of TaDreb-B1 and 1-FEH w3 KASP Markers in Spring and Winter Wheat Populations for Marker-Assisted Selection to Improve Drought Tolerance

  • Shamseldeen Eltaher,
  • Mostafa Hashem,
  • Asmaa A. M. Ahmed,
  • P. Stephen Baenziger,
  • Andreas Börner and
  • Ahmed Sallam

Due to the advances in DNA markers, kompetitive allele-specific PCR (KASP) markers could accelerate breeding programs and genetically improve drought tolerance. Two previously reported KASP markers, TaDreb-B1 and 1-FEH w3, were investigated in this s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,399 Views
10 Pages

Evaluation of the Effects of Drought Stress and Nitrogen-Sulfur Fertilization on Productivity and Yield Parameters of Spring Wheat

  • Evelin Kármen Juhász,
  • Rita Kremper,
  • Magdolna Tállai,
  • Áron Béni,
  • Tibor Novák and
  • Andrea Balla Kovács

4 December 2024

The combined effects of increasing sulfur (S) fertilization rates and drought stress on the yield and compositional parameters of spring wheat on Chernozem soil were studied. In a greenhouse pot experiment, increasing S doses (22.4, 28, 56 kg S/ha) w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,496 Views
23 Pages

The Effects of Growth Modification on Pollen Development in Spring Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Genotypes with Contrasting Drought Tolerance

  • Piotr Ogrodowicz,
  • Maria Katarzyna Wojciechowicz,
  • Anetta Kuczyńska,
  • Paweł Krajewski and
  • Michał Kempa

18 June 2023

Drought stress inducing pollen sterility can reduce crop yield worldwide. The regulatory crosstalk associated with the effects of drought on pollen formation at the cellular level has not been explored in detail so far. In this study, we performed mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,206 Views
12 Pages

30 January 2019

This paper aims to improve the predictability of extreme droughts in China by identifying their relationship with atmospheric teleconnection patterns (ATPs). Firstly, a core drought region (CDR) is defined based on historical drought analysis to inve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,597 Views
12 Pages

Proteomic Analysis of Proteins Responsive to Drought and Low Temperature Stress in a Hard Red Spring Wheat Cultivar

  • Maryke Labuschagne,
  • Stefania Masci,
  • Silvio Tundo,
  • Vera Muccilli,
  • Rosaria Saletti and
  • Angeline van Biljon

17 March 2020

Drought stress is becoming more prevalent with global warming, and has been shown to have large effects on gluten proteins linked to wheat bread making quality. Likewise, low temperature stress can detrimentally affect proteins in wheat. This study w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,489 Views
19 Pages

12 December 2022

During the breeding progress, screening excellent wheat varieties and lines takes lots of labor and time. Moreover, different climatic conditions will bring more complex and unpredictable situations. Therefore, the selection efficiency needs to be im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,913 Views
15 Pages

18 July 2023

We investigated the effect of pre-sowing seed treatment with endophytic Bacillus subtilis 10-4 (B. subtilis) on spring and winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.; cultivars Ekada-70 (Ek) and Scepter (Sc), respectively) growth and tolerance under 1–...

  • Article
  • Open Access
93 Views
15 Pages

Use of Natural Springs by Raptors: Insights from Camera Traps in the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico

  • Martín G. Frixione,
  • Israel Guerrero-Cárdenas,
  • Rafael Ramírez-Orduña,
  • Enrique de Jesús Ruiz-Mondragón,
  • Ivonne Tovar-Zamora,
  • Gustavo A. Arnaud-Franco,
  • Joaquín Rivera-Rosas and
  • Fernando I. Gastelum-Mendoza

6 January 2026

Freshwater availability is one of the most pressing environmental concerns in arid ecosystems. The use of free-standing water by raptors has been little studied, and in the context of climate change has become increasingly important as extended droug...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,022 Views
19 Pages

Abiotic Stress Response of Near-Isogenic Spring Durum Wheat Lines under Different Sowing Densities

  • Judit Bányai,
  • Marco Maccaferri,
  • László Láng,
  • Marianna Mayer,
  • Viola Tóth,
  • Mónika Cséplő,
  • Magda Pál,
  • Klára Mészáros and
  • Gyula Vida

19 February 2021

A detailed study was made of changes in the plant development, morphology, physiology and yield biology of near-isogenic lines of spring durum wheat sown in the field with different plant densities in two consecutive years (2013–2014). An analysis wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,026 Views
18 Pages

22 April 2024

In recent years, recurrent droughts have significantly affected spring barley production, reducing the quantity and quality of grain. This study aims to identify genotype-specific traits and the drought resilience of six different Hordeum vulgare L....

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,043 Views
17 Pages

Global climate change is threatening wheat productivity; improved yield under drought conditions is urgent. Here, diverse spring-wheat lines (modern, old and wheat-rye introgressions) were examined in an image-based early-vigour assay and a controlle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,718 Views
17 Pages

Screening Spring Wheat Genotypes for TaDreb-B1 and Fehw3 Genes under Severe Drought Stress at the Germination Stage Using KASP Technology

  • Elsayed A. Mohamed,
  • Asmaa A. M. Ahmed,
  • Matías Schierenbeck,
  • Mohamed Y. Hussein,
  • P. Stephen Baenziger,
  • Andreas Börner and
  • Ahmed Sallam

31 January 2023

Drought stress is a major yield-limiting factor throughout the world in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), causing losses of up to 80% of the total yield. The identification of factors affecting drought stress tolerance in the seedling stage is especially...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,592 Views
12 Pages

29 June 2022

The aim of the study was to investigate specific responses of spring wheat (C3 photosynthesis) and maize (C4 photosynthesis) to drought and flooding stress. Analyses of water content, gas exchange intensity, photosynthetic apparatus activity, chlorop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,314 Views
12 Pages

Spring Water pH in Forest Catchments Is Modified through Fluctuating Discharge under Climate Change

  • Carl Beierkuhnlein,
  • Bojan Djordjevic,
  • Johannes Höger,
  • Vincent Wilkens,
  • Samip Narayan Shrestha,
  • Timothy Smith and
  • Frank Weiser

11 October 2024

Over the course of industrialization in the 20th century, vast emissions of air pollutants have occurred. The exhaust gasses contain sulfur and nitrogen oxides, which are converted to sulfuric acid and nitric acid in the atmosphere. This causes acid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,225 Views
21 Pages

21 October 2023

Recent research has revealed that the dynamics of autumn phenology play a decisive role in the inter-annual changes in the carbon cycle. However, to date, the shifts in autumn phenology (EGS) and the elements that govern it have not garnered unanimou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,612 Views
22 Pages

20 August 2021

Vegetation phenology is an integrative indicator of environmental change, and remotely–sensed data provide a powerful way to monitor land surface vegetation responses to climatic fluctuations across various spatiotemporal scales. In this study, we sy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,103 Views
21 Pages

24 October 2021

Tropospheric ozone (O3) is widely recognized as the cause of substantial yield and quality reduction in crops. Most of the previous studies focused on the exposure of wheat cultivars to elevated O3 levels. Our main objectives were to: (i) investigate...

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