Table 1.
Recent reviews and articles focused mainly on heat stress and effects on crop yield and the main components of defense responses.
| Author | Type of article | Focus | Reference # |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pareek et al., 2020 | Special issue | Mitigating the impact of climate change on plant productivity and ecosystem sustainability. | (Pareek et al., 2020) |
| Lohani et al., 2020 | Review | Molecular mechanisms that contribute to temperature sensitivity are ably discussed and a summary presented of the regulation of male and female reproductive organ development and fertilization, together with heat-induced abnormalities at flowering. | (Lohani et al., 2020) |
| Sharma et al., 2020 | Research article | Importance of plant growth regulators (PGRs) as protection against high-temperature stress (HTS) | (Sharma et al., 2020) |
| Janni et al., 2020 | Review | Molecular and genetic bases of heat stress responses in crop plants and breeding for increased resilience and productivity. | (Janni et al., 2020) |
| Venios et al., 2020 | Review | Heat stress and global warming impacts on grapes. | (Venios et al., 2020) |
| Lima et al., 2021 | Review | Effects on heat on agricultural workers’ health. | (de Lima et al., 2021) |
| Malhi et al., 2021 | Review | Climate change effects and projections in the near future, together with their impact on the agriculture sector as an influence on physiological and metabolic activities of plants. Implications for growth and plant productivity, pest infestation, and mitigation strategies and their economic impact. | (Malhi et al., 2021) |
| Zandalinas et al., 2021 | Review | Impact of a multifactorial stress combination on plants, soil, and microbial populations. | (Zandalinas et al., 2021) |
| Brás et al., 2021 | Review | The severity of drought and heatwave crop losses has tripled over the last five decades in Europe. The review gives an overall picture of the progression of the climate disaster and its impact on crop yield. | (Brás et al., 2021) |
| Ul Hassan et al., 2021 | Review | summarizes the alterations in the development systems of plants in response to heat stress with a focus on integrated morpho-anatomical, physiological, and molecular adaptations. It also provides information about advanced heat tolerance mechanisms in various plant species applying different tactics together with genetic techniques for plant growth and development | (Ul Hassan et al., 2021) |
| Yadav et al., 2022 | Review | Impacts, Tolerance, Adaptation, and Mitigation of Heat Stress on Wheat under Changing Climates | (Yadav et al., 2022) |
| Zhao et al., 2022 | Review | The study highlights the importance of modeling crop yields under heat stress to food security, agricultural adaptation, and mitigation to climate change. | (Sun et al., 2022) |
| Han et al., 2022 | Review | The review reports the literature related to response and tolerance mechanism of food crops | (Han et al., 2022) |
| Zhou et al., 2022 | Review | The review reports the current study of crops at abiotic stresses in particular heat stress using omics | (Zhou et al., 2022) |
| Zhou et al., 2022 | Review | Heat-responsive molecular regulatory pathways mediated, respectively, by the Heat Shock Transcription Factor (HSF)–Heat Shock Protein (HSP) pathway and PHYTOCHROME INTER-ACTING FACTOR 4 (PIF4) pathways | (Zhou et al., 2022) |
| Saeed et al., 2023 | Review | The review reported the effects of heat stress on vegetables and highlights recent research with a focus on how omics and genome editing | (Saeed et al., 2023) |
Few reviews tackle global warming and climate change’s effects on agriculture.