Management of crop water under drought: a review

G Bodner, A Nakhforoosh, HP Kaul - Agronomy for Sustainable …, 2015 - Springer
Drought is a predominant cause of low yields worldwide. There is an urgent need for more
water efficient cropping systems facing large water consumption of irrigated agriculture and …

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 …

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 …

Marker-assisted selection: an approach for precision plant breeding in the twenty-first century

BCY Collard, DJ Mackill - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
DNA markers have enormous potential to improve the efficiency and precision of
conventional plant breeding via marker-assisted selection (MAS). The large number of …

Raising yield potential of wheat. III. Optimizing partitioning to grain while maintaining lodging resistance

MJ Foulkes, GA Slafer, WJ Davies… - Journal of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
A substantial increase in grain yield potential is required, along with better use of water and
fertilizer, to ensure food security and environmental protection in future decades. For …

Breeding wheat for drought tolerance: Progress and technologies

L Mwadzingeni, H Shimelis, E Dube, MD Laing… - Journal of Integrative …, 2016 - Elsevier
Recurrent drought associated with climate change is among the principal constraints to
global productivity of wheat (Triticum aestivum (L.) and T. turgidum (L.)). Numerous efforts to …

Genome-wide association analyses identify QTL hotspots for yield and component traits in durum wheat grown under yield potential, drought, and heat stress …

S Sukumaran, MP Reynolds, C Sansaloni - Frontiers in plant science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the genetic bases of economically important traits is fundamentally important
in enhancing genetic gains in durum wheat. In this study, a durum panel of 208 lines …

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 …

Breeding for yield potential and stress adaptation in cereals

JL Araus, GA Slafer, C Royo… - Critical Reviews in Plant …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The need to accelerate breeding for increased yield potential and better adaptation to
drought and other abiotic stresses is an issue of increasing urgency. As the population …

Raising yield potential in wheat

M Reynolds, MJ Foulkes, GA Slafer… - Journal of …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Recent advances in crop research have the potential to accelerate genetic gains in wheat,
especially if co-ordinated with a breeding perspective. For example, improving …