Recent Advances for Drought Stress Tolerance in Maize (Zea mays L.): Present Status and Future Prospects

S Sheoran, Y Kaur, S Kumar, S Shukla… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Drought stress has severely hampered maize production, affecting the livelihood and
economics of millions of people worldwide. In the future, as a result of climate change …

Genomics-enabled next-generation breeding approaches for developing system-specific drought tolerant hybrids in maize

T Nepolean, J Kaul, G Mukri, S Mittal - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Breeding science has immensely contributed to the global food security. Several varieties
and hybrids in different food crops including maize have been released through …

Transcription factors as molecular switches to regulate drought adaptation in maize

P Leng, J Zhao - Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2020 - Springer
Key message Here, we reviewed major transcription factors of maize that confer drought
stress tolerance, and their target genes and involved signaling pathway. Transcription …

Identification of drought tolerant mechanisms in a drought-tolerant maize mutant based on physiological, biochemical and transcriptomic analyses

Q Zhang, H Liu, X Wu, W Wang - BMC Plant Biology, 2020 - Springer
Background Frequently occurring drought stress negatively affects the production of maize
worldwide. Numerous efforts have been made to develop drought-tolerant maize lines and …

Genome-wide identification of gene expression in contrasting maize inbred lines under field drought conditions reveals the significance of transcription factors in …

X Zhang, X Liu, D Zhang, H Tang, B Sun, C Li, L Hao… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Drought is a major threat to maize growth and production. Understanding the molecular
regulation network of drought tolerance in maize is of great importance. In this study, two …

Genetic dissection of maize drought tolerance for trait improvement

S Liu, F Qin - Molecular Breeding, 2021 - Springer
Maize is one of the most important crops, but its production is threatened by drought stress
worldwide. Thus, increased drought tolerance has been a major goal of maize breeding …

Improving drought tolerance in maize: a view from industry

H Campos, M Cooper, JE Habben, GO Edmeades… - Field crops …, 2004 - Elsevier
Significant yield losses in maize (Zea mays L.) from drought are expected to increase with
global climate change as temperatures rise and rainfall distribution changes in key …

Improving drought tolerance in maize: Tools and techniques

MS McMillen, AA Mahama, J Sibiya… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Drought is an important constraint to agricultural productivity worldwide and is expected to
worsen with climate change. To assist farmers, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), to …

Identification of candidate genes for drought tolerance by whole-genome resequencing in maize

J Xu, Y Yuan, Y Xu, G Zhang, X Guo, F Wu, Q Wang… - BMC plant biology, 2014 - Springer
Background Drought stress is one of the major limiting factors for maize production. With the
availability of maize B73 reference genome and whole-genome resequencing of 15 maize …

[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
Drought, like many other environmental stresses, has adverse effects on crop yield including
maize (Zea mays L.). Low water availability is one of the major causes for maize yield …