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Climate change is expected to increase the frequency of above-normal atmospheric water deficits contemporaneous with periods of high temperatures. Here we explore alterations in physiology and gene expression in leaves of  Coffea canephora  Pierre ex A. Froehner caused by a sharp drop in relative humidity (RH) at three different temperatures. Both stomatal conductance ( g  s ) and CO 2  assimilation ( A ) measurements showed that  g  s  and  A  values fell quickly at all temperatures after the transfer to low RH.  However, leaf relative water content measurements indicated that leaves nonetheless experienced substantial water losses, implying that stomatal closure and/or resupply of water was not fast enough to stop excessive evaporative losses.  At 27 and 35 °C, upper leaves showed significant decreases in  F  v / F  m  compared with lower leaves, suggesting a stronger impact on photosystem II for upper leaves, while at 42 °C, both upper and lower leaves were equally affected. Quantitative gene expression analysis of transcription factors associated with conventional dehydration stress, and genes involved with abscisic acid signalling, such as  CcNCED3 , indicated temperature-dependent, transcriptional changes during the Humidity Shock (‘HuS’) treatments.  No expression was seen at 27 °C for the heat-shock gene  CcHSP90-7 , but it was strongly induced during the 42 °C ‘HuS’ treatment. Consistent with a proposal that important cellular damage occurred during the 42 °C ‘HuS’ treatment, two genes implicated in senescence were induced by this treatment. Overall, the data show that  C. canephora  plants subjected to a sharp drop in RH exhibit major, temperature-dependent alterations in leaf physiology and important changes in the expression of genes associated with abiotic stress and senescence. The results presented suggest that more detailed studies on the combined effects of low RH and high temperature are warranted.

A humidity shock leads to rapid, temperature dependent changes in coffee leaf physiology and gene expression