Drought: A context‐dependent damper and aggravator of plant diseases

• DOI: 10.1111/pce.14863
• Publication Date: 2024-02-27T06:44:05Z
• Authors: Aanchal Choudhary; Muthappa Senthil‐...
• Keywords: Crosstalk

Abstract Drought dynamically influences the interactions between plants and pathogens, thereby affecting disease outbreaks. Understanding intricate mechanistic aspects of multiscale among plants, environment—known as triangle—is paramount for enhancing climate resilience crop plants. In this review, we systematically compile comprehensively analyse current knowledge on influence drought severity plant diseases. We emphasise that studying these stresses in isolation is not sufficient to predict how respond combined stress from both pathogens. The impact pathogens complex multifaceted, encompassing activation antagonistic signalling cascades response factors. nature, intensity, temporality pathogen occurrence significantly outcome delineate drought‐sensitive nodes immunity highlight emerging points crosstalk defence under stress. limited understanding acknowledged a key research gap area. information synthesised herein will be crucial crafting strategies accurate prediction mitigation future risks, particularly context changing climate.