Plant Breeding for Water-Limited Environments
"In general, the book will cater to the needs of plant breeders, researchers/scientists, under-graduate, and graduate students in the field of agriculture. It is a valuable contribution to the current knowledge on breeding for drought tolerance and provides historical background, successes, an...
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2011. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7491-4 |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- The Moisture Environment
- The Palmer drought index
- The crop moisture index
- The conventions of crop water use
- Plant Water Relations, Plant Stress and Plant Production
- The initiation of plant water deficit
- The soil-plant-atmosphere continuum (SPAC)
- The albedo
- The water flux
- Root resistance
- Stem resistance
- Leaf resistance (excluding stomata and cuticle)
- Stomatal resistance
- Cuticular resistance
- Plant size and the development of water deficit
- Plant water status and plant stress
- Osmotic adjustment (OA)
- Abscisic acid (ABA)
- Growth and water deficit
- Root growth under drought stress
- The formation of yield and drought stress
- Drought Resistance and its Improvement
- Genetic gains achieved in plant breeding for drought resistance
- Genomics and breeding for drought resistance
- Gene expression and gene discovery
- Marker-assisted selection (MAS) for drought resistance
- Transgenic plants
- Drought resistance in terms of yield
- Drought resistance and yield potential: the crossover interaction
- The heritability of yield and drought stress
- QTLs and yield under drought stress
- Drought resistance in terms of physiology
- The disease resistance analogy
- The components of drought resistance
- Water-use efficiency (WUE)
- Effective use of water (EUW) and not WUE is the important driver of yield under drought stress
- Summary of plant constitutive traits controlling drought resistance
- The drought resistant ideotype
- The ideotype with respect to drought stress scenarios
- The ideotype with respect to timing of stress
- Phenotyping and Selection
- The managed stress environment
- Site homogeneity
- Experiment station faults
- Controlling the water regime
- Controlling the severity and timing of stress in the field
- Managed drought in protected environments
- Protocols for drought resistance
- Plant growth and productivity
- Plant water status – the expression of dehydration avoidance
- Dehydration tolerance
- High throughput commercial phenotyping service
- Genetic Resources for Drought Resistance
- Cultivated germplasm
- Landraces
- Wild species and crop plant progenitors
- Drought resistant transgenic plants
- Resurrection plants
- Breeding Considerations and Strategies
- Epilogue.