A proposed selection criterion for drought resistance across multiple environments in maize

Breeding Science

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 101-108

  Hao, Zhuan Fang ^a   Li, Xin Hai ^a   Su, Zhi Jun ^a   Xie, Chuan Xiao ^a   Li, Ming Shun ^a   Liang, Xiao Ling ^b   Weng, Jian Feng ^a   Zhang, De Gui ^a   Li, Liang ^a,b   Zhang, Shi Huang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Drought resistance; Maize (Zea mays L.); Selection criterion

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79959637879     PISSN: 13447610     EISSN: 13473735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.61.101     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Ashraf, M. (2010) Inducing drought tolerance in plants: Recent advances. Biotech. Adv. 28: 169-183.
2. Blum, A. (1984) Breeding crop varieties for stress environments. Critical Rev. Plant Sci. 2: 199-238.
3. Blum, A. (1999) Towards standard assays of drought resistance in crop plants. In: Ribaut, J.M. and D. Poland (eds.) Molecular Approaches for the Genetic Improvement of Cereals for Stable Production in Water-limited Environments, A strategic planning workshop held at CIMMYT, El Batán, Mexico, 21-25 June 1999, Mexico D. F. CIMMYT, pp. 29-35.
4. Bruce, W.B., G.O. Edmeades and T.C. Barker (2002) Molecular and physiological approaches to maize improvement for drought tolerance. J. Exp. Bot. 53: 13-25.
5. Buckler, E.S., B.S. Gaut and M.D. McMullen (2006) Molecular and functional diversity of maize. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 9: 172-176.
6. Bänzinger, M., G.O. Edmeades, D. Beck and M. Bellon (2000) Breeding for drought and nitrogen stress tolerance in maize: From theory to practice. Mexico D.F. CIMMYT, pp. 44-46.
7. Campos, H., M. Cooper, J.E. Habben, G.O. Edmeandes and J.R. Schussler (2004) Improving drought tolerance in maize: a view from industry. Field Crops Res. 90: 19-34.
8. Farshadfar, E. and J. Sutka (2002) Screening drought tolerance criteria in maize. Acta Agron. Hungarica 50: 411-416.
9. Fernandez, G.C.J. (1992) Effective selection criteria for assessing plant stress tolerance. Proceeding of the International Symposium on Adaptation of Vegetables and other Food Crops in Temperature and Water Stress, Aug. 13-16, Shanhua, Taiwan, pp. 257-270.
10. Fischer, R.A. and R. Maurer (1978) Drought resistance in spring wheat cultivars 1. Grain yield responses. Aust. J. Res. 29: 897-912.
11. Golestani, S.A. and M.T. Assad (1998) Evaluation of four screening techniques for drought resistance and their relationship to yield reduction ratio in wheat. Euphytica 103: 293-299.
12. Holland, J.B., W.E. Nyquist and C.T. Cervantes-Martinez (2003) Estimating and interpreting heritability for plant breeding: An Update. Plant Breed. Rev. 22: 9-112.
13. Jafari, A., F. Paknejad and M. Jami AL-Ahmaidi (2009) Evaluation of selection indices for drought tolerance of corn (Zea mays L.) hybrids. Int. J. Plant Prod. 3: 33-38.
14. Lan, J. (1998) Comparison of evaluating methods for agronomic drought resistance in crops. Acta Agriculturae Boreali-occidentalis Sinica 7: 85-87.
15. Lin, C.S. and A.M.R. Binns (1988) Superiority measure of cultivar performance for cultivar × locations data. Plant Sci. 68: 193-198.
16. Monneveux, P., C. Sanchez and A. Tiessen (2008) Future progress in drought tolerance in maize needs new secondary traits and cross combinations. J. Agri. Sci. 146: 287-300.
17. Moose, S.P. and R.H. Mumm (2008) Molecular plant breeding as the foundation for 21st century crop improvement. Plant Physiol. 147: 969-977.
18. Morris, M.L. (1998) Overview of the world maize economy. In: Morris, M.L. (ed.) Maize Seed Industries in Developing Countries, Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc., pp. 13-34.
19. Nazari, L. and H. Pakniyat (2010) Assessment of drought tolerance in barley genotypes. J. Appl. Sci. 10: 151-156.
20. Passioura, J.B. (1996) Drought and drought tolerance. Plant Growth Regul. 20: 79-83.
21. Ribaut, J.M., J. Betran, P. Monneveux and T. Setter (2009) Drought tolerance in maize. In: Bennetzen, J.L. and S.C. Hake (eds.) Handbook of Maize: Its Bilogy, Springer, New York, pp. 311-314.
22. Richards, R.A. (1996) Defining selection criteria to improve yield under drought. Plant Growth Regul. 20: 157-166.
23. Rosielle, A.A. and J. Hamblin (1981) Theoretical aspects of selection for yield in stress and non-stress environments. Crop Sci. 21: 943-946.
24. Schnable, P.S., D. Ware, R.S. Fulton, J.C. Stein, F. Wei, S. Pasternak, C. Liang, J. Zhang and R.S. Fulton (2009) The B73 maize genome: Complexity, diversity, and dynamics. Science 326: 1112-1115.
25. Sio-Se Mardeh, A., A. Ahmadi, K. Poustini and V. Mohammadi (2006) Evaluation of drought resistance indices under various environmental conditions. Field Crops Res. 98: 222-229.
26. Tardieu, F. and R. Tuberosa (2010) Dissection and modeling of abiotic stress tolerance in plants. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 13: 1-7.
27. Tester, M. and P. Langridge (2010) Breeding technologies to increase crop production in a changing world. Science 327: 818-822.
28. Xie, C., M. Warburton, M. Li, X. Li, M. Xiao, Z. Hao, Q. Zhao and S. Zhang (2008) An analysis of population structure and linkage disequilibrium using multilocus data in 187 maize inbred lines. Mol. Breed. 21: 407-418.