Drought Tolerance in Wild Plant Populations: The Case of Common Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

AJ Cortés, FA Monserrate, J Ramírez-Villegas… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
… bean accessions to estimate drought tolerance in their natural habitats. Our wild population
sample covered a range … Red lines indicate groups of accessions with overall high quintiles. …

Breeding for drought tolerance: direct selection for yield, response to selection and use of drought-tolerant donors in upland and lowland-adapted populations

A Kumar, J Bernier, S Verulkar, HR Lafitte, GN Atlin - Field Crops Research, 2008 - Elsevier
… In our selection of drought-tolerant lines in three segregating populations, we always found
some transgressive segregants that yielded significantly higher than the parents under both …

Inducing drought tolerance in plants: recent advances

M Ashraf - Biotechnology advances, 2010 - Elsevier
… signal transduction to generate drought tolerant crop cultivars/lines has been discussed in the
… mapping population's drought tolerant parent. While evaluating all QTL introgression lines

[PDF][PDF] Assessment of drought tolerance in segregating populations in durum wheat

M Golabadi, A Arzani, SAM Maibody - African Journal of …, 2006 - researchgate.net
populations originated from a cross between a susceptible (Massara-1) and tolerant (Oste-Gata)
durum wheat lines … One hundred and fifty-one F3 and F4 lines were evaluated using a …

Genetic and genomic tools to improve drought tolerance in wheat

D Fleury, S Jefferies, H Kuchel… - Journal of experimental …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
… parental lines for the development of segregating populations. Elite cultivars and breeding
… the way in which we structure populations for analysis and tackle specific components of …

Natural variation and genetic constraints on drought tolerance

TE Juenger - Current opinion in plant biology, 2013 - Elsevier
drought influenced standing genetic variation and driven local adaptation in plants? Can
studies of natural populations help direct efforts to breed new drought tolerant … along lines of …

[HTML][HTML] Drought tolerance of a doubled-haploid line population of rice in the field

A Blum, J Mayer, G Golan… - … . Ito, P., O'Toole, JC and …, 1999 - books.google.com
… of droughttolerance traits in rice. This study was performed to evaluate a subset of 100 lines
of this population for drought tolerance in terms of plant production in the field. Lines were …

Selection for drought tolerance in two tropical maize populations

C Magorokosho, P Tongoona - African Crop Science Journal, 2003 - ajol.info
populations, ZM601 and ZM607 for drought tolerance during flowering, the most drought-…
This is a crucial fact to allow comparisons of drought tolerance among the lines, because it …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluation of drought tolerance indices in wheat recombinant inbred line population

M Nouraein, SA Mohammadi, S Aharizad… - Ann. Biol …, 2013 - academia.edu
… The aim of the present study was to indentify drought tolerance RILs obtained from a cross
between two diverse parents based on various drought tolerance indices for further uses in …

[HTML][HTML] Breeding for Drought Tolerance in Maize (Zea mays L.)

ARS Maazou, J Tu, J Qiu, Z Liu - American Journal of Plant Sciences, 2016 - scirp.org
… effective in improving the drought tolerance of tropical maize populations and hybrids as well.
… strategies used for improving drought stress-tolerant maize lines will provide opportunities …