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Worldwide, abiotic stresses including heat and drought are the major obstructions that threaten the agricultural production. Development of climate-resilient cultivars is the easy and economical way to combat drought and heat stress with limited resources. Plants do follow adaptation strategies to mitigate the impact of stress and lead to alteration in some of the morphological traits such as leaf rolling, leaf angle, cuticular wax content, stomatal conductance, deep root system, altered signalling and metabolic pathways. Targeting such traits along with the economical yield will help to identify suitable genotypes which perform better under stress environment. The basic step is to explore the available physiological trait variation among the cultivars, germplasm set and wild relatives to main stream alleles of importance to breeding material from the donor parent. Conventional and advanced breeding strategies can be …