Back into the wild—Apply untapped genetic diversity of wild relatives for crop improvement

H Zhang, N Mittal, LJ Leamy, O Barazani… - Evolutionary …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Deleterious effects of climate change and human activities, as well as diverse environmental
stresses, present critical challenges to food production and the maintenance of natural …

Integrated genomics, physiology and breeding approaches for improving drought tolerance in crops

RR Mir, M Zaman-Allah, N Sreenivasulu… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2012 - Springer
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 …

Genetic and genomic tools to improve drought tolerance in wheat

D Fleury, S Jefferies, H Kuchel… - Journal of experimental …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Tolerance to drought is a quantitative trait, with a complex phenotype, often confounded by
plant phenology. Breeding for drought tolerance is further complicated since several types of …

Genetic analysis of abiotic stress tolerance in crops

SJ Roy, EJ Tucker, M Tester - Current opinion in plant biology, 2011 - Elsevier
Abiotic stress tolerance is complex, but as phenotyping technologies improve, components
that contribute to abiotic stress tolerance can be quantified with increasing ease. In parallel …

Evolution of wild cereals during 28 years of global warming in Israel

E Nevo, YB Fu, T Pavlicek, S Khalifa… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Climate change is a major environmental stress threatening biodiversity and human
civilization. The best hope to secure staple food for humans and animal feed by future crop …

Bridging the rice yield gaps under drought: QTLs, genes, and their use in breeding programs

N Sandhu, A Kumar - Agronomy, 2017 - mdpi.com
Rice is the staple food for more than half of the world's population. Although rice production
has doubled in the last 30 years as a result of the development of high-yield, widely …

Advances in mechanisms of drought tolerance in crops, with emphasis on barley

A Kebede, MS Kang, E Bekele - Advances in agronomy, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract According to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), droughts have significant
economic, environmental, and social impacts, both direct and indirect. All field crops are …

Meta-analysis of major QTL for abiotic stress tolerance in barley and implications for barley breeding

X Zhang, S Shabala, A Koutoulis, L Shabala, M Zhou - Planta, 2017 - Springer
Main conclusion We projected meta-QTL (MQTL) for drought, salinity, and waterlogging
tolerance to the physical map of barley through meta-analysis. The positions of these MQTL …

GWAS analysis in spring barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) for morphological traits exposed to drought

M Jabbari, BA Fakheri, R Aghnoum, N Mahdi Nezhad… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Association analysis based on linkage disequilibrium has become a common and powerful
approach for detection of QTLs underlying complex agronomic traits including drought …

Multi-environment analysis and improved mapping of a yield-related QTL on chromosome 3B of wheat

J Bonneau, J Taylor, B Parent, D Bennett… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2013 - Springer
Improved mapping, multi-environment quantitative trait loci (QTL) analysis and dissection of
allelic effects were used to define a QTL associated with grain yield, thousand grain weight …