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    The demand for agricultural production is becoming more challenging as climate change increases global temperature and the frequency of extreme weather events. This study examines the phenotypic variation of 149 accessions of Brachypodium distachyon under drought, heat, and the combination of stresses. Heat alone causes the largest amounts of tissue damage while the combination of stresses causes the largest decrease in biomass compared to other treatments. Notably, Bd21-0, the reference line for B. distachyon, did not have robust growth under stress conditions, especially the heat and combined drought and heat treatments. The climate of origin was significantly associated with B. distachyon responses to the assessed stress conditions. Additionally, a GWAS found loci associated with changes in plant height and the amount of damaged tissue under stress. Some of these SNPs were closely located to genes known to be involved in responses to abiotic stresses and point to potential causative loci in plant stress response. However, SNPs found to be significantly associated with a response to heat or drought individually are not also significantly associated with the combination of stresses. This, with the phenotypic data, suggests that the effects of these abiotic stresses are not simply additive, and the responses to the combined stresses differ from drought and heat alone. © 2023 The Authors. The Plant Journal published by Society for Experimental Biology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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    Ella Ludwig, Joshua Sumner, Jeffrey Berry, Seth Polydore, Tracy Ficor, Erica Agnew, Kristina Haines, Kathleen Greenham, Noah Fahlgren, Todd C Mockler, Malia A Gehan. Natural variation in Brachypodium distachyon responses to combined abiotic stresses. The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology. 2024 Mar;117(6):1676-1701

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    PMID: 37483133

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