Genetic improvement of wheat for drought tolerance: Progress, challenges and opportunities

T Bapela, H Shimelis, TJ Tsilo, I Mathew - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Wheat production and productivity are challenged by recurrent droughts associated with
climate change globally. Drought and heat stress resilient cultivars can alleviate yield loss in …

Thermal stresses in maize: effects and management strategies

MA Waqas, X Wang, SA Zafar, MA Noor, HA Hussain… - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Climate change can decrease the global maize productivity and grain quality. Maize crop
requires an optimal temperature for better harvest productivity. A suboptimal temperature at …

The role of genetic diversity and pre‐breeding traits to improve drought and heat tolerance of bread wheat at the reproductive stage

S Shokat, DK Großkinsky, S Singh… - Food and Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme weather including heat waves and drought episodes are expected to increase in
intensity and duration due to climate change. Wheat, being a major crop is under extreme …

Activities of leaf and spike carbohydrate-metabolic and antioxidant enzymes are linked with yield performance in three spring wheat genotypes grown under well …

S Shokat, DK Großkinsky, T Roitsch, F Liu - BMC Plant Biology, 2020 - Springer
Background To improve our understanding about the physiological mechanism of grain
yield reduction at anthesis, three spring wheat genotypes [L 1 (advanced line), L 2 (Vorobey) …

A GBS-based GWAS analysis of adaptability and yield traits in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

S Akram, MAR Arif, A Hameed - Journal of Applied Genetics, 2021 - Springer
Wheat is a foremost food grain of Pakistan and occupies a vital position in agricultural
policies of the country. Wheat demand will be increased by 60% by 2050 which is a serious …

Impact of pre-anthesis drought stress on physiology, yield-related traits, and drought-responsive genes in green super rice

H Ahmad, SA Zafar, MK Naeem, S Shokat… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Optimum soil water availability is vital for maximum yield production in rice which is
challenged by increasing spells of drought. The reproductive stage drought is among the …

Direct introgression of untapped diversity into elite wheat lines

S Singh, A Jighly, D Sehgal, J Burgueño, R Joukhadar… - Nature Food, 2021 - nature.com
The effective utilization of natural variation has become essential in addressing the
challenges that climate change and population growth pose to global food security …

Capturing wheat phenotypes at the genome level

B Hussain, BA Akpınar, M Alaux, AM Algharib… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Recent technological advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have
dramatically reduced the cost of DNA sequencing, allowing species with large and complex …

Elevated carbon dioxide alleviates the negative impact of drought on wheat by modulating plant metabolism and physiology

A Ulfat, S Shokat, X Li, L Fang, DK Großkinsky… - Agricultural Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study was conducted to understand the mechanism of wheat yield decrease under
drought stress and the role of CO 2 in modulating physiological and metabolic drought …

Introduction to marker-assisted selection in wheat breeding

S Pandurangan, C Workman, K Nilsen… - Accelerated breeding of …, 2021 - Springer
Marker-assisted selection (MAS) is a selection method for improving agriculturally essential
traits in wheat. MAS allows efficient screening of difficult-to-phenotype traits, introgression of …