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 …

Cell wall metabolism in response to abiotic stress

HL Gall, F Philippe, JM Domon, F Gillet, J Pelloux… - Plants, 2015 - mdpi.com
This review focuses on the responses of the plant cell wall to several abiotic stresses
including drought, flooding, heat, cold, salt, heavy metals, light, and air pollutants. The …

Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria alleviates drought stress in potato in response to suppressive oxidative stress and antioxidant enzymes activities

T Batool, S Ali, MF Seleiman, NH Naveed, A Ali… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Maintenance of plant physiological functions under drought stress is normally considered a
positive feature as it indicates sustained plant health and growth. This study was conducted …

Physiological and biochemical changes during drought and recovery periods at tillering and jointing stages in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

M Abid, S Ali, LK Qi, R Zahoor, Z Tian, D Jiang… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Defining the metabolic strategies used by wheat to tolerate and recover from drought events
will be important for ensuring yield stability in the future, but studies addressing this critical …

Effects of water stress on photosynthesis, yield, and water use efficiency in winter wheat

W Zhao, L Liu, Q Shen, J Yang, X Han, F Tian, J Wu - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
Drought has become one of the major constraints to agricultural development, particularly in
areas that lack water. Studying the effects of different water stresses on the photosynthesis …

Plant growth‐promoting rhizobacteria enhance wheat salt and drought stress tolerance by altering endogenous phytohormone levels and TaCTR1/TaDREB2 …

D Barnawal, N Bharti, SS Pandey… - Physiologia …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abiotic stresses such as salt and drought represent adverse environmental conditions that
significantly damage plant growth and agricultural productivity. In this study, the mechanism …

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 …

Effective use of water (EUW) and not water-use efficiency (WUE) is the target of crop yield improvement under drought stress

A Blum - Field crops research, 2009 - Elsevier
Water-use efficiency (WUE) is often considered an important determinant of yield under
stress and even as a component of crop drought resistance. It has been used to imply that …

Plant responses to drought and rewatering

Z Xu, G Zhou, H Shimizu - Plant signaling & behavior, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Plants would be more vulnerable to water stress and thereafter rewatering or a cycled water
environmental change, which occur more frequently under climatic change conditions in …

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 …