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The Impact of Post-Fire Smoke on Ecosystems All over the World
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: Received: 15 August 2023 / Approved: 16 August 2023 / Online: 17 August 2023 (03:13:14 CEST)
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Zahed, M.; Bączek-Kwinta, R. The Impact of Post-Fire Smoke on Plant Communities: A Global Approach. Plants 2023, 12, 3835. Zahed, M.; Bączek-Kwinta, R. The Impact of Post-Fire Smoke on Plant Communities: A Global Approach. Plants 2023, 12, 3835.
Abstract
Fire-related cues could alter vegetation community composition by promoting or excluding different types of plants. Smoke-derived compounds have been a hot topic in plant and crop physiology. There are some fire-prone areas in Australia, both Americas, some Mediterranean countries and regions with extensive prescribed or illegal burning like central European, which are subjected to a direct impact of fire (heat, minerals accumulation from the burning matter) and/or the indirect one (smoke) and undergo compositional and structural changes. This review first updates information about the effect of the compounds on plants' kingdoms and focuses on the research advances in the field of smoke compounds and attempts to gather and summarize the recent state of research and opinions on the role of smoke-derived compounds in plants' lives. We finish our review by discussing major research gaps, which include: Why plants respond to smoke chemicals? Is the response of seeds to smoke and smoke compounds an evolutionary-driven trait allowing plants to adapt to local environment?
Keywords
plant butenolides; karrikins; seed germination; plant ecology; crop physiology; plant development; swailing; vegetation restoration
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Plant Sciences
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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