New frontiers in understanding and modeling waterlogging impacts on plants

Process-based simulation models aid scientific endeavour in understanding and quantifying the impacts of biophysical factors on crop growth, development and production. While the science underpinning crop growth modeling under optimal conditions has advanced over recent decades, our knowledge of ecophysiological processes underpinning waterlogging impacts on plants has received relatively little attention. As extreme climatic events associated with the climate crisis become more frequent, crop waterlogging will become an increasingly real risk for many environments and production systems.