Anticipate, acclimate, recuperate, and remember: how spatiotemporal signal integration controls flooding stress resilience in plants.

Flooding-induced ethylene and hypoxia signalling is integrated with many environmental and internal factors to control plant acclimation and re-oxygenation responses, shaping flooding stress resilience.

• Why it matters: Flooding limits growth and survival by causing oxygen deprivation and re-oxygenation damage, so plants need coordinated signalling to manage hypoxia and recovery.
• What they did: The work reviews how ethylene- and hypoxia-dependent pathways are modulated by additional environmental and metabolic context, and how these signals support anticipation, fine-tuned acclimation, and re-oxygenation orchestration.
• The result: The integrated signalling framework suggests plants can anticipate and prepare for flooding hypoxia, adjust responses to context, and encode stress memory for survival under sequential stressors.

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