Drought tolerance improvement in crop plants: An integrated view from breeding to genomics

Field Crops Research

Volumn 105, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 1-14

  Cattivelli, Luigi ^a,b   Rizza, Fulvia ^a   Badeck, Franz W ^c   Mazzucotelli, Elisabetta ^b   Mastrangelo, Anna M ^b   Francia, Enrico ^a   Marè, Caterina ^a   Tondelli, Alessandro ^a   Stanca, A Michele ^a  

^a CRA Genomic Research Centre   (Italy)

^b CRA Cereal Research Centre   (Italy)

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drought tolerance; Drought tolerance genes; Marker assisted selection; Plant transformation; QTL; Stress index

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; DROUGHT; GENES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WATER;

MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT BREEDING;

CROPS;

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; BREEDING; CROP IMPROVEMENT; CROP YIELD; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; WATER STRESS;

EID: 43049106154     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2007.07.004     Document Type: Review

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