Drought and salinity are among the most important environmental factors that hampered
agricultural productivity worldwide. Both stresses can induce several morphological …

Salinity and drought stresses affect plant growth worldwide and limit crop production. Auxin
is crucial in regulating plants' salinity and drought stress adaptative response. As a chemical …

Plant roots play a significant role in plant growth by exploiting soil resources via the uptake
of water and nutrients. Root traits such as fine root diameter, specific root length, specific root …

World population is expected to reach 9.2× 109 people by 2050. Feeding them will require a
boost in crop productivity using innovative approaches. Current agricultural production is …

Source-to-sink transport of sugar is one of the major determinants of plant growth and relies
on the efficient and controlled distribution of sucrose (and some other sugars such as …

The improvement of crop yield has been possible through the indirect manipulation of
quantitative trait loci (QTLs) that control heritable variability of the traits and physiological …

Genetic control of yield under reproductive‐stage drought stress was studied in a population
of 436 random F3–derived lines from a cross between the upland rice (Oryza sativa L.) …

Drought tolerance (DT) and drought avoidance (DA) are two major mechanisms in drought
resistance of higher plants. In this study, the genetic bases of DT and DA at reproductive …

Abstract An F 4: 5 population of 490 recombinant inbred lines (RILs) from the cross Apo/2*
Swarna was used to detect quantitative trait loci (QTL) with large effects on grain yield under …

Upland rice, produced by smallholder farmers, is the lowest‐yielding rice production system.
Drought stress is the most severe abiotic constraint in upland rice. Improving productivity of …