Chilling and drought stresses in crop plants: implications, cross talk, and potential management opportunities

HA Hussain, S Hussain, A Khaliq, U Ashraf… - Frontiers in plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Plants face a combination of different abiotic stresses under field conditions which are lethal
to plant growth and production. Simultaneous occurrence of chilling and drought stresses in …

Genomics-based approaches to improve drought tolerance of crops

R Tuberosa, S Salvi - Trends in plant science, 2006 - cell.com
The genetic bases of the molecular, cellular and developmental responses to drought
involve many gene functions regulated by water availability. Genomics-based approaches …

Chilling tolerance in maize: agronomic and physiological approaches

M Farooq, T Aziz, A Wahid, DJ Lee… - Crop and Pasture …, 2009 - CSIRO Publishing
Maize is a C4 plant species with higher temperature optima than C3 plant species. Growth
and productivity of maize are severely constrained by chilling stress. Here, we review the …

Drought tolerance in maize

JM Ribaut, J Betran, P Monneveux, T Setter - Handbook of maize: its …, 2009 - Springer
Drought is the single most common cause of severe crop production shortage in develo**
countries, and global warming is predicted to further exacerbate drought's impact. This …

Gene action controlling grain yield and secondary traits in southern African maize hybrids under drought and non-drought environments

J Derera, P Tongoona, BS Vivek, MD Laing - Euphytica, 2008 - Springer
Breeding maize hybrids for drought tolerance would significantly reduce yield loss due to
drought in southern Africa. Mode of gene action controlling yield and secondary traits was …

Marker assisted selection (MAS) towards generating stress tolerant crop plants

EL Devi, CP Devi, S Kumar, SK Sharma, A Beemrote… - Plant Gene, 2017 - Elsevier
The potential benefits of using molecular markers linked to genes of interest in plant
breeding programs are evident since many decades. The identification of large numbers of …

Genome‐wide approaches to investigate and improve maize response to drought

R Tuberosa, S Salvi, S Giuliani, MC Sanguineti… - Crop …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Genome‐wide approaches offer new, unprecedented opportunities to identify, clone, and
manipulate the plethora of genes affecting drought tolerance in model species and crops …

Low-temperature stress and nitrogen metabolism in plants: A review

A Bhattacharya - Physiological processes in plants under low …, 2022 - Springer
Cold stress can lead to major crop losses. In natural ecosystems, there are several inputs of
soil nitrogen. Even though our atmosphere consists of nearly 80% of N2, it is the limiting …

QTL for agronomic traits in maize production

R Tuberosa, S Salvi - Handbook of maize: its biology, 2009 - Springer
The utilization of molecular markers and genomics platforms offers unprecedented
opportunities to discover, select, and clone the quantitative trait loci (QTL) that govern grain …

Genomics of root architecture and functions in maize

R Tuberosa, S Salvi, S Giuliani, MC Sanguineti… - Root genomics, 2011 - Springer
Genomics approaches and platforms offer novel opportunities to identify and clone the loci
that control root architecture in maize. Mutants for root features have been described and in …