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 …

Next-generation phenotyping: requirements and strategies for enhancing our understanding of genotype–phenotype relationships and its relevance to crop …

JN Cobb, G DeClerck, A Greenberg, R Clark… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2013 - Springer
More accurate and precise phenotyping strategies are necessary to empower high-
resolution linkage mapping and genome-wide association studies and for training genomic …

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 …

Genetics and genomics of root system variation in adaptation to drought stress in cereal crops

MN Siddiqui, J Léon, AA Naz… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Cereals are important crops worldwide that help meet food demands and nutritional needs.
In recent years, cereal production has been challenged globally by frequent droughts and …

Discovering consensus genomic regions in wheat for root-related traits by QTL meta-analysis

JM Soriano, F Alvaro - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Root system architecture is crucial for wheat adaptation to drought stress, but phenotyping
for root traits in breeding programmes is difficult and time-consuming owing to the …

Recognizing the hidden half in wheat: root system attributes associated with drought tolerance

C Li, L Li, MP Reynolds, J Wang… - Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Improving drought tolerance in wheat is crucial for maintaining productivity and food
security. Roots are responsible for the uptake of water from soil, and a number of root traits …

[PDF][PDF] Genomic approaches for improving drought tolerance in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.): A Comprehensive Review

P Paudel, MK Pandey, M Subedi, P Paudel… - Plant …, 2024 - researchgate.net
The uses of traditional methods and instruments have led to a great success in plant
breeding through the creation of better cultivars. Currently, the accessibility of genomic data …

Breeding banana (Musa spp.) for drought tolerance: A review

M Nansamba, J Sibiya, R Tumuhimbise… - Plant …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Drought is a major abiotic stress affecting banana production worldwide, leading to yield
losses of up to 65%. Consequently, numerous efforts to understand and mitigate drought …

Mapping QTL for Root and Shoot Morphological Traits in a Durum Wheat × T. dicoccum Segregating Population at Seedling Stage

A Iannucci, D Marone, MA Russo… - … Journal of Genomics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A segregating population of 136 recombinant inbred lines derived from a cross between the
durum wheat cv.“Simeto” and the T. dicoccum accession “Molise Colli” was grown in soil …

Genome-Wide Association Study on Root System Architecture and Identification of Candidate Genes in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

J Ma, D Zhao, X Tang, M Yuan, D Zhang, M Xu… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The root tissues play important roles in water and nutrient acquisition, environmental
adaptation, and plant development. In this study, a diversity panel of 388 wheat accessions …