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A review proposes a drought tolerance definition—higher field yield under water limitation—and a five-hub framework linking traits from pot experiments to crop performance in field plots.
- Why it matters: Pot protocols often misrepresent field drought, creating confusion between survival under water limitation and sustained growth, and limiting which “drought tolerance” traits actually scale to yield.
- What they did: The authors synthesize evidence and outline a framework centered on water demand, water budget size, speed of water use, water use efficiency, and timing of water use, emphasizing context-dependent scaling from pots to plots.
- The result: They argue that many pot-measured traits, including oxidative-stress responses, have not scaled to field yield, and they advocate integrating crop agronomy to map practices onto the framework.
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