Advances and prospects: Biotechnologically improving crop water use efficiency

Critical Reviews in Biotechnology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 281-293

  Zhengbin, Zhang ^a   Ping, Xu ^a   Hongbo, Shao ^b,c   Mengjun, Liu ^d   Zhenyan, Fu ^a   Liye, Chu ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b YANTAI INSTITUTE OF COASTAL ZONE RESEARCH   (China)

^c QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d Agricultural College of Northwest   (China)

Author keywords

Breeding; Crops; Drought tolerance; Genetics; Quantitative trait location (QTL); Transgenic technology; Water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAITS; TRANSGENIC TECHNOLOGY; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

AGRONOMY; BIODEGRADATION; CROPS; DROUGHT; EFFICIENCY; GENES; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); WATER CONSERVATION; WATER SUPPLY;

WATER RESOURCES;

ALX8 GENE; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; CROP; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; ERECTA GENE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT WATER USE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BREEDING; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DROUGHTS; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; WATER;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 80051939665     PISSN: 07388551     EISSN: 15497801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07388551.2010.531004     Document Type: Review

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