Plant adaptation to acid soils: the molecular basis for crop aluminum resistance

LV Kochian, MA Piñeros, J Liu… - Annual Review of Plant …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Aluminum (Al) toxicity in acid soils is a significant limitation to crop production worldwide, as
approximately 50% of the world's potentially arable soil is acidic. Because acid soils are …

Getting to the roots of it: genetic and hormonal control of root architecture

JKH Jung, S McCouch - Frontiers in plant science, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Root system architecture (RSA)–the spatial configuration of a root system–is an important
developmental and agronomic trait, with implications for overall plant architecture, growth …

A gene in the multidrug and toxic compound extrusion (MATE) family confers aluminum tolerance in sorghum

JV Magalhaes, J Liu, CT Guimaraes, UGP Lana… - Nature …, 2007 - nature.com
Crop yields are significantly reduced by aluminum toxicity on highly acidic soils, which
comprise up to 50% of the world's arable land,,. Candidate aluminum tolerance proteins …

Quantitative trait loci and crop performance under abiotic stress: where do we stand?

NC Collins, F Tardieu, R Tuberosa - Plant physiology, 2008 - academic.oup.com
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 Architecture of Aluminum Tolerance in Rice (Oryza sativa) Determined through Genome-Wide Association Analysis and QTL Mapping

AN Famoso, K Zhao, RT Clark, CW Tung… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Aluminum (Al) toxicity is a primary limitation to crop productivity on acid soils, and rice has
been demonstrated to be significantly more Al tolerant than other cereal crops. However, the …

Development of a novel aluminum tolerance phenotyping platform used for comparisons of cereal aluminum tolerance and investigations into rice aluminum tolerance …

AN Famoso, RT Clark, JE Shaff, E Craft… - Plant …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The genetic and physiological mechanisms of aluminum (Al) tolerance have been well
studied in certain cereal crops, and Al tolerance genes have been identified in sorghum …

Response of sorghum to abiotic stresses: A review

I Tari, G Laskay, Z Takács, P Poór - Journal of agronomy and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Sorghum [(S orghum bicolor L.) M oench] is a highly productive crop plant, which can be
used for alternative energy resource, human food, livestock feed or industrial purposes. The …

Novel approaches in plant breeding for rhizosphere-related traits

M Wissuwa, M Mazzola, C Picard - 2009 - Springer
Selection of modern varieties has typically been performed in standardized, high fertility
systems with a primary focus on yield. This could have contributed to the loss of plant genes …

Molecular mechanisms of Al tolerance in gramineous plants

JF Ma, ZC Chen, RF Shen - Plant and soil, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Background Aluminum (Al) toxicity has limited the productivity and expansion of
cereal crops on acid soils; however, a number of plant species or cultivars have developed …

Massive sorghum collection genotyped with SSR markers to enhance use of global genetic resources

C Billot, P Ramu, S Bouchet, J Chantereau, M Deu… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Large ex situ collections require approaches for sampling manageable amounts of
germplasm for in-depth characterization and use. We present here a large diversity survey in …