Drought stress in wheat during flowering and grain-filling periods

M Farooq, M Hussain, KHM Siddique - Critical reviews in plant …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Drought is a major environmental stress threatening wheat productivity worldwide. Global
climate models predict changed precipitation patterns with frequent episodes of drought …

Coping with drought: stress and adaptive responses in potato and perspectives for improvement

JE Obidiegwu, GJ Bryan, HG Jones… - Frontiers in plant …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is often considered as a drought sensitive crop and its
sustainable production is threatened due to frequent drought episodes. There has been …

Phenotyping for drought tolerance of crops in the genomics era

R Tuberosa - Frontiers in physiology, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Improving crops yield under water-limited conditions is the most daunting challenge faced
by breeders. To this end, accurate, relevant phenotyping plays an increasingly pivotal role …

Photosynthetic metabolism under stressful growth conditions as a bases for crop breeding and yield improvement

F Morales, M Ancín, D Fakhet, J González-Torralba… - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Increased periods of water shortage and higher temperatures, together with a reduction in
nutrient availability, have been proposed as major factors that negatively impact plant …

Impacts of drought and/or heat stress on physiological, developmental, growth, and yield processes of crop plants

PVV Prasad, SA Staggenborg… - Response of crops to …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Drought and heat stress are among the two most important environmental factors influencing
crop growth, development, and yield processes. A comprehensive understanding of the …

Transpiration efficiency: new insights into an old story

V Vadez, J Kholova, S Medina… - Journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Producing more food per unit of water has never been as important as it is at present, and
the demand for water by economic sectors other than agriculture will necessarily put a great …

Wheat physiology: a review of recent developments

RA Fischer - Crop and Pasture Science, 2011 - CSIRO Publishing
This review focuses on recent advances in some key areas of wheat physiology, namely
phasic development, determination of potential yield and water-limited potential yield …

[HTML][HTML] Adapting wheat in Europe for climate change

MA Semenov, P Stratonovitch, F Alghabari… - Journal of cereal …, 2014 - Elsevier
Increasing cereal yield is needed to meet the projected increased demand for world food
supply of about 70% by 2050. Sirius, a process-based model for wheat, was used to …

Modern viticulture in southern Europe: Vulnerabilities and strategies for adaptation to water scarcity

JM Costa, M Vaz, J Escalona, R Egipto, C Lopes… - Agricultural Water …, 2016 - Elsevier
Water is now considered the most important but vulnerable resource in the Mediterranean
region. Nevertheless, irrigation expanded fast in the region (eg South Portugal and Spain) to …

Exogenous application of chitosan on biochemical and physiological characteristics, phenolic content and antioxidant activity of two species of basil (Ocimum ciliatum …

AG Pirbalouti, F Malekpoor, A Salimi, A Golparvar - Scientia horticulturae, 2017 - Elsevier
Chitosan is a biopolymer with various industrial, medicinal, pharmaceutical, and agricultural
applications. Effects of exogenous application of chitosan, a marine polysaccharide with …