Emerging Strategies Mold Plasticity of Vegetable Plants in Response to High Temperature Stress

Abstract

As a result of energy consumption and human activities, a large amount of carbon dioxide emissions has led to global warming, which seriously affects the growth and development of plants. Vegetables are an indispensable part of people’s diet. In the plant kingdom, a variety of vegetables are highly sensitive to climate change. For them, an increase of just a few degrees above their optimum temperature threshold can result in a loss of yield and quality. Emerging strategies such as practice management and breeding varieties in response to above-optimal temperatures are critical for abiotic stress resistance of vegetable crops. In this study, the function and application of multiple strategies, including breeding improvement, epigenetic modification directed generation of alleles, gene editing techniques, and accumulation of mutations in multigenerational adaptation to abiotic stress, were discussed in vegetable crops. It is believed to be meaningful for plants to build plasticity under high temperature stress, thus generating more genetic structures for heat resistant traits in vegetable products.

Developing future heat-resilient vegetable crops

“…There is an increase of 0.73 ℃ recorded in 100 years (Ito et al 2022 ). Vegetables are important for a continuous food supply and are also affected by heat, whether day or night (Nie et al 2022 ). In Chinese cabbage, high temperature affects flowering and leads towards early flowering (Huang et al 2020 ).…”