With the global climate anomalies and the destruction of ecological balance, the water
shortage has become a serious ecological problem facing all mankind, and drought has …

Drought stress, which causes a decline in quality and quantity of crop yields, has become
more accentuated these days due to climatic change. Serious measures need to be taken to …

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 …

Drought can be considered as a cocktail of multiple stressful conditions that contribute to
osmotic and ionic imbalance in plants. Considering that water is vital for plant life, the very …

Crop yield is mainly influenced by climatic factors, agronomic factors, pests and nutrient
availability in the soil. Stress is any adverse environmental condition that hampers proper …

Drought tolerance involves mechanisms operating at different spatial and temporal scales,
from rapid stomatal closure to maintenance of crop yield. We review how short-term …

Abscisic acid (ABA) is one of the “classical” plant hormones, ie discovered at least 50 years
ago, that regulates many aspects of plant growth and development. This chapter reviews our …

Drought is one of the leading factors responsible for the reduction in crop yield worldwide.
Due to climate change, in future, more areas are going to be affected by drought and for …

Recent advances in DNA-sequencing technologies now allow for in-depth characterization
of the genomic stress responses of many organisms beyond model taxa. They are especially …

While the functional genetics and physiological mechanisms controlling drought resistance
in crop plants have been intensely studied, less research has examined the genetic basis of …