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 …

Cereals including wheat and barley are of primary importance to ensure food security for the
21st century. A combination of lab-and field-based approaches has led to a considerably …

The genus Triticum includes bread (Triticum aestivum) and durum wheat (Triticum durum)
and constitutes a major source for human food consumption. Drought is currently the leading …

Among the effects of impending climate change, drought will have a profound impact on
crop productivity in the future. Response to drought stress has been studied widely, and the …

Crop yield improvement is necessary to keep pace with increasing demand for food. Due to
climatic variability, the incidence of drought stress at crop growth stages is becoming a major …

Drought and salinity are the primary factors limiting wheat production worldwide. It has been
shown that a rice stress-responsive transcription factor encoded by the rice NAC1 gene …

Domestication of plants and animals is the major factor underlying human civilization.
Cultivated wheats refer mainly to two types: the hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) …

Water deficit is one of the major factors limiting crop productivity worldwide. Plant roots play
a key role in uptaking water, perceiving and transducing of water deficit signals to shoot …

Salinity threat is estimated to reduce global rice production by 50%. Comprehensive
analysis of the physiological and metabolite changes in rice plants from salinity stress (ie …

MicroRNAs, small regulatory molecules with significant impacts on the transcriptional
network of all living organisms, have been the focus of several studies conducted mostly on …