Drought is a major environmental stress threatening wheat productivity worldwide. Global
climate models predict changed precipitation patterns with frequent episodes of drought …

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is often considered as a drought sensitive crop and its
sustainable production is threatened due to frequent drought episodes. There has been …

Accurate quantification of terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET) is essential to understand the
Earth's energy and water budgets under climate change. However, despite water and …

Increasing food demands by a growing human population require substantial increases in
crop productivity. In rain-fed arid and semiarid areas where the water supply is limited, an …

In the last decade, our understanding of the processes underlying plant response to drought,
at the molecular and whole-plant levels, has rapidly progressed. Here, we review that …

Water Relations of Plants and Soils, successor to the seminal 1983 book by Paul Kramer,
covers the entire field of water relations using current concepts and consistent terminology …

Publisher Summary This chapter evaluates traits for improving crop yield in water-limited
environments. The chapter describes the components of yield and the determinants of …

Osmotic adjustment (OA), the accumulation of solutes in higher plant cells in response to
water deficits, was first reported more than four decades ago. Since then, variation in OA …

This review focuses on the effects of water deficits on photosynthesis and partitioning of
assimilates at the leaf level. It is now established that the rate of CO2 assimilation in the …

Food legume crops play important roles in conservation farming systems and contribute to
food security in the developing world. However, in many regions of the world, their …