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 …

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 …

Osmotic adjustment (OA), the accumulation of solutes in higher plant cells in response to
water deficits, was first reported more than four decades ago. Since then, variation in OA …

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 …

Osmolyte accumulation (OA) is frequently cited as a key putative mechanism for increasing
yields of crops subjected to drought conditions. The hypothesis is that OA results in a …

Plant water deficit is a component of several different stresses, including drought, salinity
and low temperature, which severely limit plant growth and crop productivity. Genetic …

Key message QTL related to cooler canopy temperatures are associated with optimal root
distribution whereby roots proliferate at depth under drought or near to surface under hot …

Because most commercial potato cultivars were developed in temperate regions, they are
adapted, therefore producing the greatest yield under long photoperiods and moderate …

The final yield of a crop is the product of growth during the growing season and a number of
developmental processes occurring throughout the life cycle of a crop, with most genes …

Ecophysiological models predict quantitative traits of one genotype in any environment,
whereas quantitative trait locus (QTL) models predict the contribution of alleles to …