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Anaerobic stress — flooding and ice-encasement

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Stress and Stress Coping in Cultivated Plants

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Crop plants require a free exchange of atmospheric gases for photosynthesis and respiration. Like animals, plants can be easily suffocated if this gas exchange is impeded. The most common impediment to gas diffusion is water that saturates the root environment in poorly drained soils or that accumulates above soil capacity as a result of the overflow of rivers, excessive rainfall or excessive irrigation. Perennial plants in northern latitudes are covered by snow during the winter, which does not block gas exchange itself, but if the snow melts, ice sheets may form on the soil surface. In addition, vegetative growth from the previous season can be compacted by the snow to smother the roots and buds underground.

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  2. Department of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, 52900, Ramat Gan, Israel

    Ya’acov Y. Leshem (Professor of Plant Physiology)

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Mckersie, B.D., Leshem, Y.Y. (1994). Anaerobic stress — flooding and ice-encasement. In: Stress and Stress Coping in Cultivated Plants. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3093-8_9

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