Drought stress tolerance in wheat and barley: advances in physiology, breeding and genetics research

A Sallam, AM Alqudah, MFA Dawood… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Climate change is a major threat to most of the agricultural crops grown in tropical and sub-
tropical areas globally. Drought stress is one of the consequences of climate change that …

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 …

The statistical analysis of multi-environment data: modeling genotype-by-environment interaction and its genetic basis

M Malosetti, JM Ribaut, FA van Eeuwijk - Frontiers in physiology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Genotype-by-environment interaction (GEI) is an important phenomenon in plant breeding.
This paper presents a series of models for describing, exploring, understanding, and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Drought responses of leaf tissues from wheat cultivars of differing drought tolerance at the metabolite level

JB Bowne, TA Erwin, J Juttner, T Schnurbusch… - Molecular plant, 2012 - cell.com
Drought has serious effects on the physiology of cereal crops. At the cellular and specifically
the metabolite level, many individual compounds are increased to provide osmoprotective …

Heat and drought adaptive QTL in a wheat population designed to minimize confounding agronomic effects

RS Pinto, MP Reynolds, KL Mathews… - Theoretical and applied …, 2010 - Springer
A restricted range in height and phenology of the elite Seri/Babax recombinant inbred line
(RIL) population makes it ideal for physiological and genetic studies. Previous research has …

Heritability in plant breeding on a genotype-difference basis

P Schmidt, J Hartung, J Bennewitz, HP Piepho - Genetics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
In plant breeding, heritability is often calculated (i) as a measure of precision of trials and/or
(ii) to compute the response to selection. It is usually estimated on an entry-mean basis …