Rice Responses to Water Limiting Conditions: Improving Stress Management by Exploiting Genetics and Physiological Processes
Water-limiting conditions can severely affect rice yield. Therefore, increasing plant tolerance to water stress is a priority for many rice breeding programs. However, improving rice tolerance to this abiotic stress comes with several complications related to the seeding practices, the adopted water...
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| author | Elisa Zampieri Michele Pesenti Fabio Francesco Nocito Gian Attilio Sacchi Giampiero Valè |
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| description | Water-limiting conditions can severely affect rice yield. Therefore, increasing plant tolerance to water stress is a priority for many rice breeding programs. However, improving rice tolerance to this abiotic stress comes with several complications related to the seeding practices, the adopted water management system and the growth stage where water stress occurs. For this reason, it is challenging to outline single ideotypes showing traits suitable for overcoming drought at different times during the life cycle of rice in diverse cropping ecosystems. The current knowledge of genomics and biochemicals can contribute to drawing rice ideotypes flexible towards diverse water availability conditions. Traits identified in accessions of the wild ancestor of cultivated rice, as well as other wild rice species, in <i>Oryza glaberrima</i> and weedy rice were demonstrated to confer enhanced tolerance to water stress, while screenings of cultivated rice germplasms identified several genes/loci improving water stress resistance. New frontiers are represented by the dissection of the epigenetic control of stress tolerance and the implementation of the contribution of favorable microbiota. Innovative breeding technologies, whose feasibility is related to advancements in genomic analyses, are contributing to enhancing the knowledge-based development of water stress-tolerant rice varieties. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a42e775d82c8498183b2466fd1a07fe92023-11-16T18:31:34ZengMDPI AGAgriculture2077-04722023-02-0113246410.3390/agriculture13020464Rice Responses to Water Limiting Conditions: Improving Stress Management by Exploiting Genetics and Physiological ProcessesElisa Zampieri0Michele Pesenti1Fabio Francesco Nocito2Gian Attilio Sacchi3Giampiero Valè4Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, National Research Council, Strada delle Cacce 73, 10135 Turin, ItalyDepartment of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences-Production, Landscape, Agroenergy-DiSAA-University of Milan, 20133 Milan, ItalyDepartment of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences-Production, Landscape, Agroenergy-DiSAA-University of Milan, 20133 Milan, ItalyDepartment of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences-Production, Landscape, Agroenergy-DiSAA-University of Milan, 20133 Milan, ItalyDipartimento per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile e la Transizione Ecologica (DiSSTE), Università del Piemonte Orientale, Piazza San Eusebio 5, 13100 Vercelli, ItalyWater-limiting conditions can severely affect rice yield. Therefore, increasing plant tolerance to water stress is a priority for many rice breeding programs. However, improving rice tolerance to this abiotic stress comes with several complications related to the seeding practices, the adopted water management system and the growth stage where water stress occurs. For this reason, it is challenging to outline single ideotypes showing traits suitable for overcoming drought at different times during the life cycle of rice in diverse cropping ecosystems. The current knowledge of genomics and biochemicals can contribute to drawing rice ideotypes flexible towards diverse water availability conditions. Traits identified in accessions of the wild ancestor of cultivated rice, as well as other wild rice species, in <i>Oryza glaberrima</i> and weedy rice were demonstrated to confer enhanced tolerance to water stress, while screenings of cultivated rice germplasms identified several genes/loci improving water stress resistance. New frontiers are represented by the dissection of the epigenetic control of stress tolerance and the implementation of the contribution of favorable microbiota. Innovative breeding technologies, whose feasibility is related to advancements in genomic analyses, are contributing to enhancing the knowledge-based development of water stress-tolerant rice varieties.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/13/2/464<i>Oryza</i>water deficitclimate changestressgenesmolecular changes |
| spellingShingle | Elisa Zampieri Michele Pesenti Fabio Francesco Nocito Gian Attilio Sacchi Giampiero Valè Rice Responses to Water Limiting Conditions: Improving Stress Management by Exploiting Genetics and Physiological Processes Agriculture <i>Oryza</i> water deficit climate change stress genes molecular changes |
| title | Rice Responses to Water Limiting Conditions: Improving Stress Management by Exploiting Genetics and Physiological Processes |
| title_full | Rice Responses to Water Limiting Conditions: Improving Stress Management by Exploiting Genetics and Physiological Processes |
| title_fullStr | Rice Responses to Water Limiting Conditions: Improving Stress Management by Exploiting Genetics and Physiological Processes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rice Responses to Water Limiting Conditions: Improving Stress Management by Exploiting Genetics and Physiological Processes |
| title_short | Rice Responses to Water Limiting Conditions: Improving Stress Management by Exploiting Genetics and Physiological Processes |
| title_sort | rice responses to water limiting conditions improving stress management by exploiting genetics and physiological processes |
| topic | <i>Oryza</i> water deficit climate change stress genes molecular changes |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/13/2/464 |
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