Division of Plant Sciences and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, 1201 Rollins Street, Columbia, MO 65201, USA.
Division of Plant Sciences and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, 1201 Rollins Street, Columbia, MO 65201, USA; Department of Surgery, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, 1201 Rollins Street, Columbia, MO 65201, USA.
Trends Plant Sci. 2021 Jun;26(6):588-599. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2021.02.011. Epub 2021 Mar 18.
Global warming, climate change, and environmental pollution present plants with unique combinations of different abiotic and biotic stresses. Although much is known about how plants acclimate to each of these individual stresses, little is known about how they respond to a combination of many of these stress factors occurring together, namely a multifactorial stress combination. Recent studies revealed that increasing the number of different co-occurring multifactorial stress factors causes a severe decline in plant growth and survival, as well as in the microbiome biodiversity that plants depend upon. This effect should serve as a dire warning to our society and prompt us to decisively act to reduce pollutants, fight global warming, and augment the tolerance of crops to multifactorial stress combinations.
全球变暖、气候变化和环境污染给植物带来了独特的多种非生物和生物胁迫组合。尽管人们已经了解了植物如何适应这些单一胁迫,但是对于它们如何应对多种胁迫因素共同作用的情况,即多因素胁迫组合,却知之甚少。最近的研究表明,增加多种共同发生的多因素胁迫因素的数量会导致植物生长和存活以及植物赖以生存的微生物多样性严重下降。这种影响应该引起我们社会的严重警告,并促使我们果断采取行动,减少污染物、应对全球变暖、提高作物对多因素胁迫组合的耐受能力。