Drought tolerance in soybean: genetics, metabolomics, remote sensing, and breeding for enhanced drought tolerance [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceDrought is the most damaging abiotic stress affecting soybean production, with variable rainfall contributing significantly to year-to-year yield variability. Breeding efforts aim to develop cultivars with stable and competitive yields under both drought
Nathaniel Burner +7 more
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The genetic basis of drought tolerance in the high oil crop Sesamum indicum [PDF]
Plant Biotechnology Journal, 2019 Unlike most of the important food crops, sesame can survive drought but severe and repeated drought episodes, especially occurring during the reproductive stage, significantly curtail the productivity of this high oil crop.
Komivi Dossa, Donghua Li, Jingyin Yu
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Climate-Smart Tillage Practices with Straw Return to Sustain Crop Productivity
Agronomy, 2022 Climate change seriously threatens global crop production. However, there are few reports on field crop yield and yield components based on long-term different climate conditions.
Zhen Liu +5 more
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Optimizing the N Rate for Maize Forage to Balance Profits and N Ecological Stress
Agronomy, 2022 The N application used for the production of forage affects environment stress. The N application rate used for the production of the whole maize (Zea mays L.) plant (WMP) affects the produced feed and environment.
Kun Han, Peng Liu
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Plant, Soil and Environment, 2022 Long-term single tillage causes serious deterioration of land quality and reduction of crop yield. Tillage rotation can alleviate the problems caused by long-term single tillage. However, the effects of different tillage rotations are still very limited.
Shuwei Zhu +3 more
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Expression of the CCCH-tandem zinc finger protein gene OsTZF5 under a stress-inducible promoter mitigates the effect of drought stress on rice grain yield under field conditions [PDF]
, 2020 Increasing drought resistance without sacrificing grain yield remains an ongoing challenge in crop improvement. In this study, we report that Oryza sativa CCCH‐tandem zinc finger protein 5 (OsTZF5) can confer drought resistance and increase grain yield ...
Dedicova, Beata +10 more
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Heat stability of winter wheat depends on cultivars, timing and protective methods
Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2020 Heat stress negatively affects wheat production in many regions of the world. At present, sensitivity to heat stress remains one of the least understood aspects of wheat genetics and breeding, and measures for preventing heat stress are understudied.
Qiang LI +7 more
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Comprehensive evaluation of saline-alkali tolerance in different wheat (Triticum aestivum) varieties throughout the entire growth cycle [PDF]
Emirates Journal of Food and AgricultureTo investigate the salt tolerance of different wheat varieties and identify those suitable for cultivation in saline-alkali soil, 64 predominantly promoted wheat varieties were cultivated in artificial salt ponds.
LiYa Niu +8 more
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Breeding drought tolerant cowpea: constraints, accomplishments, and future prospects [PDF]
, 2009 This review presents an overview of accomplishments on different aspects of cowpea breeding for drought tolerance. Furthermore it provides options to enhance the genetic potential of the crop by minimizing yield loss due to drought stress. Recent efforts
Agbicodo, A.C.M.E. +4 more
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Drought tolerance conferred to sugarcane by association with Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus: a transcriptomic view of hormone pathways [PDF]
, 2014 Sugarcane interacts with particular types of beneficial nitrogen-fixing bacteria that provide fixed-nitrogen and plant growth hormones to host plants, promoting an increase in plant biomass.
de Carvalho, Thais G +10 more
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