To survive, sessile plants must cope with climate change
catastrophes or so-called environmental stress factors such
as drought, elevated temperatures, elevated [CO2] and
salinity – both individually, or more commonly, in combination.
Climate change catastrophes impact on all aspects
of plant architecture and represent a serious challenge for
developing sustainable agriculture at a time of significant
growth in the global population [1–12]. To cope with climate
change catastrophes, plants have evolved a wide
spectrum of molecular programs to sense change rapidly
and adapt accordingly [4–6,10,12–29].