Low water availability is the major environmental factor limiting growth and productivity of plants and crops and is therefore considered of high importance for agriculture affected by climate change. Identifying regulatory components controlling the response and tolerance to drought stress is thus of major importance. The NAC transcription factor (TF) JUNGBRUNNEN1 (JUB1) from Arabidopsis thali...

Drought frequency and intensity has been predicted to increase under many climate change scenarios. It is therefore critical to understand the response of forests to potential climate change in an effort to mitigate adverse impacts. The purpose of this study was to explore the regional effects of different drought severities on tree growth and mortality. Specifically, we investigated changes in...

Radial stem growth and the isotopic composition of growth rings are commonly used to quantify the effects of droughts on trees. However, often these parameters are quantified only at one stem height, e.g., 1.3 m, and it is not known how representative this is for the whole stem. This study investigated radial growth at four stem heights (1.3, 5.5, 9.8 and 14 m) of 21, and wood Δ(13)C and δ(18)O...

introduction today, climate change issue is one of the main challenges for scientists and due to the critical role of water in human life, the study of climate change impacts on severity and frequency of drought in each region seems to be indispensable (hulme et al., 1999). drought is usually occurred over a period of water shortage owing to less rainfall, high evapotranspiration and pumping a ...

abstract precipitation is an important variable which is used in definition of drought. based on precipitation amounts, some indices are devised for drought monitoring including, the standardized precipitation index (spi) and the standard index of annual precipitation (siap). each of these drought indices are classified into some classes so that each class descripts a given severity of drought....

Occasional strong droughts are an important feature of the climatic environment of tropical rain forest in much of Borneo. This paper compares the response of a lowland dipterocarp forest at Danum, Sabah, in a period of low (LDI) andaperiodofhigh (HDI) drought intensity (1986–96,9.98y;1996–99,2.62y).Meanannual drought intensity was two-fold higher in the HDI than LDI period (1997 v. 976mm), and...

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) represent a class of riboregulators that either directly act in long form or are processed to shorter miRNAs and siRNAs. Emerging evidence shows that lncRNAs participate in stress responsive regulation. In this study, to identify the putative maize lncRNAs responsive to drought stress, 8449 drought responsive transcripts were first uploaded to the Coding Potential...

Drought class transitions over a sector of Eastern Europe were modeled using log-linear models. These drought class transitions were computed from time series of two widely used multiscale drought indices, the Standardized Preipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) and the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), with temporal scales of 6 and 12 months for 15 points selected from a grid over t...

Can sat be solved in “moderately exponential” time, i.e., in time p(|F |) 2 for some polynomial p and some constant c < 1, where F is a CNF formula of size |F | over n variables? This challenging question is far from being resolved. In this paper, we relate the question of moderately exponential complexity of sat to the question of moderately exponential complexity of problems defined by existe...