Many grasses host symbiotic fungi, Epichloë spp. These fungi can help grasses tolerate herbivory, or help repel herbivores. But how do these fungi pass between plant hosts? They could be passed horizontally between...
Tag - tolerance
Alex Assiry
Improving sugarcane’s resilience to salinity and drought
Crops like sugarcane, rice, wheat and maize rely on irrigation. As they’re so thirsty, they are also susceptible to drought. Finding a way to protect the crops from drought is a challenge that needs a solution as...
Increased resistance to a generalist herbivore in a salinity-stressed non-halophytic plant
During their life, plants face multiple stresses. However, studies on single stress factors have typically neglected possible interactions with other factors. In a recent study published in AoB PLANTS, Renault et al...
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SPECIAL ISSUE: Plant Responses to Low-Oxygen Environments
AoB PLANTS is pleased to announce the publication of a Special Issue entitled Plant Responses to Low-Oxygen Environments, edited by Michael Jackson (University of Bristol, UK) and Abdelbagi Ismail (International Rice...
Ontogenetic changes in multiple plant defences
Ontogenetic changes in anti-herbivore defences are common and result from variation in resource availability and herbivore damage throughout plant development. However, little is known about the simultaneous changes of...
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HvAACT1 increases Al3+-tolerance in wheat and barley
Genetically modifying barley and wheat to express the barley gene HvAACT1 gene has potential to alleviate the effects of aluminium toxicity in acid soils.
Ontogeny and responses to apical damage
Plants can tolerate tissue loss through vigorous branching, often triggered by release from apical dominance and activation of lateral meristems. In the annual plant Medicago truncatula, Gruntman and Novoplansky show...
