Drought is an important abiotic stress factor limiting crop productivity worldwide and its
impact is increasing with climate change. Regardless of the plant growth period, drought has …

Grain legumes are important sources of proteins, essential micronutrients and vitamins and
for human nutrition. Climate change, including drought, is a severe threat to grain legume …

Climate change, food shortage, water scarcity, and population growth are some of the
threatening challenges being faced in today's world. Drought stress (DS) poses a constant …

Increasing vulnerability of plants to a variety of stresses such as drought, salt and extreme
temperatures poses a global threat to sustained growth and productivity of major crops. Of …

Cicer arietinum L. is the third greatest widely planted imperative pulse crop worldwide, and it
belongs to the Leguminosae family. Drought is the utmost common abiotic factor on plants …

Water scarcity is a major constraint limiting grain legume production particularly in the arid
and semi‐arid tropics. Different climate models have predicted changes in rainfall …

The current genome editing system Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic
Repeats Cas9 (CRISPR/Cas9) has already confirmed its proficiency, adaptability, and …

Chickpea is one of the most important pulse crops worldwide, being an excellent source of
protein. It is grown under rain-fed conditions averaging yields of 1 t/ha, far from its potential …

Drought and heat stress are two major abiotic stresses that challenge the sustainability of
agriculture to a larger extend. The changing and unpredictable climate further aggravates …

Although chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) has high yield potential, its seed yield is often low
and unstable due to the impact of abiotic stresses, such as drought and heat. As a result of …