Drought tolerance improvement in crop plants: an integrated view from breeding to genomics

L Cattivelli, F Rizza, FW Badeck, E Mazzucotelli… - Field crops …, 2008 - Elsevier
Drought is the most significant environmental stress in agriculture worldwide and improving
yield under drought is a major goal of plant breeding. A review of breeding progress pointed …

Dehydrin gene expression provides an indicator of low temperature and drought stress: transcriptome-based analysis of Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)

L Tommasini, JT Svensson, EM Rodriguez… - Functional & integrative …, 2008 - Springer
Low temperature and drought have major influences on plant growth and productivity. To
identify barley genes involved in responses to these stresses and to specifically test the …

Quantitative trait loci associated with adaptation to Mediterranean dryland conditions in barley

M von Korff, S Grando, A Del Greco, D This… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2008 - Springer
The objective of the present study was to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) influencing
agronomic performance across rain fed Mediterranean environments in a recombinant …

Does fructan have a functional role in physiological traits? Investigation by quantitative trait locus mapping

LB Turner, AJ Cairns, IP Armstead, H Thomas… - New …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The role of fructan in growth and drought‐stress responses of perennial ryegrass (Lolium
perenne) was investigated in an F2 mapping family that segregates for carbohydrate …

[图书][B] Water deficit in bread wheat: characterisation using genetic and physiological tools

J Zhang - 2008 - researchgate.net
Under terminal water deficit, the impact of stem carbohydrate remobilization has greater
significance because post-anthesis assimilation is limited, and grain growth depends on …

Evaluation of physiological traits and identification of QTLs for drought tolerance in hexaploid wheat (Triticum aestivum L.).

A Izanloo - 2008 - digital.library.adelaide.edu.au
This study comprised three major parts: a comparative physiological study of drought
responses under controlled conditions; a genetic study to construct the skeleton map of a …