Crop production under changing environment

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Abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, and high temperatures greatly affect plant growth and productivity worldwide. While plants response to abiotic stress is routinely studied in plants by applying a single stress condition, this type of analysis does not reflect the conditions that occur in the field where crops are subjected to a combination of different stresses. Thus, because the majority of molecular/physiological and genetic studies do not reflect the field conditions, a considerable gap exists between the information gained by these studies and the knowledge needed to develop crops with enhanced tolerance to the stress conditions. The major goal of this project is to dissect the genetic and metabolic networks that respond to environmental stress combinations. We use Brachypodium distachyon as a model.

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To read more see: Shaar-moshe et al. Plant Physiology 2017