Sustaining yield and nutritional quality of peanuts in harsh environments: Physiological and molecular basis of drought and heat stress tolerance

N Puppala, SN Nayak, A Sanz-Saez, C Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Climate change is significantly impacting agricultural production worldwide. Peanuts provide
food and nutritional security to millions of people across the globe because of its high …

Breeding drought-tolerant pearl millet using conventional and genomic approaches: Achievements and prospects

RK Srivastava, OP Yadav, S Kaliamoorthy… - Frontiers in plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] is a C4 crop cultivated for its grain and stover in
crop-livestock-based rain-fed farming systems of tropics and subtropics in the Indian …

Characterization of 'QTL-hotspot' introgression lines reveals physiological mechanisms and candidate genes associated with drought adaptation in chickpea

R Barmukh, M Roorkiwal, GP Dixit… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract 'QTL-hotspot'is a genomic region on linkage group 04 (CaLG04) in chickpea (Cicer
arietinum) that harbours major-effect quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for multiple drought …

Identifying Traits Associated With Terminal Drought Tolerance in Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) Genotypes

BB Pandey, P Ratnakumar, B Usha Kiran… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Sesame is predominantly cultivated in rainfed and low fertile lands and is frequently
exposed to terminal drought. Sesamum species inhabiting dryland ecosystems adaptively …

Redesigning crop varieties to win the race between climate change and food security

KV Pixley, JE Cairns, S Lopez-Ridaura, CO Ojiewo… - Molecular Plant, 2023 - cell.com
Climate change poses daunting challenges to agricultural production and food security.
Rising temperatures, shifting weather patterns, and more frequent extreme events have …

Severe drought significantly reduces floral hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) yield and cannabinoid content but moderate drought does not

W Morgan, J Singh, K Kesheimer, J Davis… - Environmental and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Floral Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) is a new crop of interest due to its capacity of
producing medicinally active substances such as cannabidiol (CBD) and other …

Assessment of the genetic diversity and population structure of groundnut germplasm collections using phenotypic traits and SNP markers: Implications for drought …

S Abady, H Shimelis, P Janila, S Yaduru… - PloS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Profiling the genetic composition and relationships among groundnut germplasm collections
is essential for the breeding of new cultivars. The objectives of this study were to assess the …

Tolerance to mid‐season drought in peanut can be achieved by high water use efficiency or high efficient use of water

Q Zhang, P Dang, C Chen, Y Feng, W Batchelor… - Crop …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Peanut (Arachis Hypogaea L) is an economic cash crop mainly planted in arid and
semi‐arid regions where drought causes approximately 20% yield losses every year. It has …

Physiological and genetic control of transpiration efficiency in African rice, Oryza glaberrima Steud

P Affortit, B Effa-Effa, MS Ndoye… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Improving crop water use efficiency, the amount of carbon assimilated as biomass per unit of
water used by a plant, is of major importance as water for agriculture becomes scarcer. In …

A prospective review on selectable marker-free genome engineered rice: past, present and future scientific realm

R Singh, N Kaur, UP Praba, G Kaur, MJ Tanin… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
As a staple food crop, rice has gained mainstream attention in genome engineering for its
genetic improvement. Genome engineering technologies such as transgenic and genome …