"Droughts" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Prolonged dry periods in natural climate cycle. They are slow-onset phenomena caused by rainfall deficit combined with other predisposing factors.
| Descriptor ID |
D055864
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G16.500.175.781 G16.500.750.775.154
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Droughts" by people in Profiles.
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Seasonal stabilization effects slowed the greening of the Northern Hemisphere over the last two decades. Nat Commun. 2025 Jul 08; 16(1):6287.
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Limited Regulation of Canopy Water Use Efficiency by Stomatal Behavior Under Drought Propagation. Glob Chang Biol. 2025 Jul; 31(7):e70381.
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The impacts of rising vapour pressure deficit in natural and managed ecosystems. Plant Cell Environ. 2024 Sep; 47(9):3561-3589.
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Developmental and biophysical determinants of grass leaf size worldwide. Nature. 2021 04; 592(7853):242-247.
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Nutrients mitigate the impacts of extreme drought on plant invasions. Ecology. 2020 04; 101(4):e02980.
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Host-mediated microbiome engineering (HMME) of drought tolerance in the wheat rhizosphere. PLoS One. 2019; 14(12):e0225933.
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Silencing of OsGRXS17 in rice improves drought stress tolerance by modulating ROS accumulation and stomatal closure. Sci Rep. 2017 11 21; 7(1):15950.
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Expression of a monothiol glutaredoxin, AtGRXS17, in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) enhances drought tolerance. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2017 09 30; 491(4):1034-1039.
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Genome-wide analysis of drought induced gene expression changes in flax (Linum usitatissimum). GM Crops Food. 2014 Apr-Jun; 5(2):106-19.
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Physiological advantages of C4 grasses in the field: a comparative experiment demonstrating the importance of drought. Glob Chang Biol. 2014 Jun; 20(6):1992-2003.