Drought tolerance improvement in crop plants: an integrated view from breeding to genomics

L Cattivelli, F Rizza, FW Badeck, E Mazzucotelli… - Field crops …, 2008 - Elsevier
Drought is the most significant environmental stress in agriculture worldwide and improving
yield under drought is a major goal of plant breeding. A review of breeding progress pointed …

Genetic engineering for modern agriculture: challenges and perspectives

R Mittler, E Blumwald - Annual review of plant biology, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Abiotic stress conditions such as drought, heat, or salinity cause extensive losses to
agricultural production worldwide. Progress in generating transgenic crops with enhanced …

Drought resistance, water-use efficiency, and yield potential—are they compatible, dissonant, or mutually exclusive?

A Blum - Australian journal of agricultural research, 2005 - CSIRO Publishing
This presentation is a concept review paper dealing with a central dilemma in
understanding, designing, and acting upon crop plant improvement programs for drought …

Inducing drought tolerance in plants: recent advances

M Ashraf - Biotechnology advances, 2010 - Elsevier
Undoubtedly, drought is one of the prime abiotic stresses in the world. Crop yield losses due
to drought stress are considerable. Although a variety of approaches have been used to …

Sorghum in dryland: morphological, physiological, and molecular responses of sorghum under drought stress

KB Abreha, M Enyew, AS Carlsson, RR Vetukuri… - Planta, 2022 - Springer
Main conclusion Droughts negatively affect sorghum's productivity and nutritional quality.
Across its diversity centers, however, there exist resilient genotypes that function differently …

Integrated genomics, physiology and breeding approaches for improving drought tolerance in crops

RR Mir, M Zaman-Allah, N Sreenivasulu… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2012 - Springer
Drought is one of the most serious production constraint for world agriculture and is
projected to worsen with anticipated climate change. Inter-disciplinary scientists have been …

Drought tolerance in wheat

A Nezhadahmadi, ZH Prodhan… - The Scientific World …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Drought is one of the most important phenomena which limit crops' production and yield.
Crops demonstrate various morphological, physiological, biochemical, and molecular …

Impacts of drought and/or heat stress on physiological, developmental, growth, and yield processes of crop plants

PVV Prasad, SA Staggenborg… - Response of crops to …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Drought and heat stress are among the two most important environmental factors influencing
crop growth, development, and yield processes. A comprehensive understanding of the …

Designing sorghum as a dedicated bioenergy feedstock

WL Rooney, J Blumenthal, B Bean… - Biofuels, Bioproducts …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing cost of energy and finite oil and gas reserves has created a need to develop
alternative fuels from renewable sources. Currently, the development of a renewable …

[BOOK][B] Handbook of plant and crop stress

M Pessarakli - 2019 - books.google.com
Since the publication of the third edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress,
continuous discoveries in the fields of plant and crop environmental stresses and their …