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Design Principles of Plant Thermotolerance: Integrating Photosynthesis, Reproduction, and Field Resilience in a Warming Climate.
Plant, Cell & Environment · · Review · Open access
Qu, Yamori
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Plant thermotolerance can be reframed as six integrated design domains that preserve photosynthetic CO2 assimilation under high temperature, linking defense timing, energetic costs, and interconnections.
- Why it matters: Climate change threatens yields of major staples like wheat, rice, and maize, yet heat-stress responses are often described as fragmented, limiting translation into crop improvement.
- What they did: The work synthesizes current knowledge of heat-stress responses and organizes them into six functional domains spanning membranes, photosynthetic regulation, metabolites/hormones, ROS scavenging, protein homeostasis, and transcriptional control.
- The result: The framework provides a unifying conceptual and practical roadmap for engineering thermotolerance at distinct physiological nodes, clarifying opportunities and trade-offs for high-yield, heat-tolerant cultivars.
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