Crops are often cultivated in regions where they will face environmental adversities;
resulting in substantial yield loss which can ultimately lead to food and societal problems …

Reliance on agriculture for food security is a constant in all modern societies. Global climate
change and population growth have put immense pressure on sustainable agriculture …

Improving crops yield under water-limited conditions is the most daunting challenge faced
by breeders. To this end, accurate, relevant phenotyping plays an increasingly pivotal role …

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 …

With predicted global changes in temperature and precipitation, drought will increasingly
impose a challenge to biomass production. Most of the bioenergy crops have some degree …

Drought is one of the most important environmental stresses affecting the productivity of
most field crops. Elucidation of the complex mechanisms underlying drought resistance in …

Genome‐wide approaches offer new, unprecedented opportunities to identify, clone, and
manipulate the plethora of genes affecting drought tolerance in model species and crops …

With ongoing global climate change, water scarcity‐induced drought stress remains a major
threat to agricultural productivity. Plants undergo a series of physiological and …

Drought stress presents a considerable threat to the global crop production. As a dominant
source of vegetarian diet, cereals and grain-legumes remain crucial to meeting the growing …

Drought stress has become a major threat to international food security. Drought resistance
is regulated by various small effect loci and polygenes that control morphological and …