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Understanding How Plants Respond to Drought Stress at the Molecular and Whole Plant Levels by Hossain, Mohammad Anwar; Wani, Shabir Hussain; Bhattacharjee, Soumen; Burritt, David J; Tran, Lam-Son Phan is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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Drought is one of the most severe constraints to crop productivity worldwide, and thus it has become a major concern for global food security.  Due to an increasing world population, droughts could lead to serious food shortages by 2050. The situation may worsen due to predicated climatic changes that may increase the frequency, duration and severity of droughts. Hence, there is an urgent need to improve our understanding of the complex mechanisms associated with drought tolerance and to develop modern crop varieties that are more resilient to drought. Identification of the genes responsible for drought tolerance in plants will contribute to our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that could enable crop plants to respond to drought. The discovery of novel drought related genes, the analysis of their expression patterns in response to drought, and determination of the functions these genes play in drought adaptation will provide a base to develop effective strategies to enhance the drought tolerance of crop plants. Plant breeding efforts to increase crop yields in dry environments have been slow to date mainly due to our poor understanding of the molecular and genetic mechanis

Author

Hossain, Mohammad Anwar; Wani, Shabir Hussain; Bhattacharjee, Soumen; Burritt, David J; Tran, Lam-Son Phan

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Springer

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319324234