Drought stress in plants: A review on morphological characteristics and pigments composition

Cheruth Abdul Jaleel; Paramasivam Manivannan; Abdul Wahid; Muhammad Farooq; Hameed Jasim Al-Juburi; Ramamurthy Somasundaram; Rajaram Panneerselvam

Drought stress in plants: A review on morphological characteristics and pigments composition

Cheruth Abdul Jaleel, Paramasivam Manivannan, Abdul Wahid, Muhammad Farooq, Hameed Jasim Al-Juburi, Ramamurthy Somasundaram, Rajaram Panneerselvam

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Abstract

Plant growth and productivity is adversely affected by nature's wrath in the form of various biotic and abiotic stress factors. Water deficit is one of the major abiotic stresses, which adversely affects crop growth and yield. These changes are mainly related to altered metabolic functions, one of those is either loss of or reduced synthesis of photosynthetic pigments. This results in declined light harvesting and generation of reducing powers, which are a source of energy for dark reactions of photosynthesis. These changes in the amounts of photosynthetic pigments are closely associated to plant biomass yield. This review describes some aspects of drought induced changes in morphological, physiological and pigments composition in higher plants.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	100-105
Number of pages	6
Journal	International Journal of Agriculture and Biology
Volume	11
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Morphological characters
Pigments composition
Secondary metabolism
Yield

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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