Local electrical responses in leaves make photosynthesis heat-tolerant

Plants exist in variable and often unfavorable environmental conditions, which requires the functioning of a variety of adaptive mechanisms for their survival under the action of stressors. The study of such adaptive mechanisms and identifying ways to control them opens up broad prospects for saving agricultural crops under drought and high temperatures, disease development, pests and other factors that threaten plant life. Currently, the vast majority of researchers are involved in the study of relatively slow adaptation processes that develop in the course of hours, days and weeks. However, in the case of a rapid development of stressors, such adaptive responses may not be effective enough. Therefore, it is important to identify mechanisms that lead to the development of adaptive changes within minutes or tens of minutes after the onset of the stress factor.