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These findings underscore ozone’s persistent damage under drought, a scenario likely to intensify with climate change. Both elevated ozone and drought negatively impacted leaf area index in soybean, leading to reductions in total canopy size. Smaller canopies tend to produce less yield due to decreased photosynthate available for seed production. Decreases in yield were driven largely by reductions in weight per individual seed rather than due to decreased flowering or pod set. The results indicate the potential for decreased yields under future climate scenarios and underpin the need to understand the interaction between different abiotic stresses. Minirhizotron tubes were used to take repeated images of root growth across growing seasons. Soybean responded to soil drying by increasing root length regardless of ozone concentration. The median root depth of soybean exposed to root drying increased, confirming the strong response of root growth towards soil containing more water. 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