Exploitation of Drought Tolerance-Related Genes for Crop Improvement
Drought has become a major threat to food security, because it affects crop growth and development. Drought tolerance is an important quantitative trait, which is regulated by hundreds of genes in crop plants. In recent decades, scientists have made considerable progress to uncover the genetic and m...
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| author | Jingyi Wang Chaonan Li Long Li Matthew Reynolds Xinguo Mao Ruilian Jing |
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| description | Drought has become a major threat to food security, because it affects crop growth and development. Drought tolerance is an important quantitative trait, which is regulated by hundreds of genes in crop plants. In recent decades, scientists have made considerable progress to uncover the genetic and molecular mechanisms of drought tolerance, especially in model plants. This review summarizes the evaluation criteria for drought tolerance, methods for gene mining, characterization of genes related to drought tolerance, and explores the approaches to enhance crop drought tolerance. Collectively, this review illustrates the application prospect of these genes in improving the drought tolerance breeding of crop plants. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f897bd96d778496e8c36981aa35c6ed82023-11-22T16:06:57ZengMDPI AGInternational Journal of Molecular Sciences1661-65961422-00672021-09-0122191026510.3390/ijms221910265Exploitation of Drought Tolerance-Related Genes for Crop ImprovementJingyi Wang0Chaonan Li1Long Li2Matthew Reynolds3Xinguo Mao4Ruilian Jing5National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, ChinaNational Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, ChinaNational Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, ChinaInternational Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Texcoco 56237, MexicoNational Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, ChinaNational Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, ChinaDrought has become a major threat to food security, because it affects crop growth and development. Drought tolerance is an important quantitative trait, which is regulated by hundreds of genes in crop plants. In recent decades, scientists have made considerable progress to uncover the genetic and molecular mechanisms of drought tolerance, especially in model plants. This review summarizes the evaluation criteria for drought tolerance, methods for gene mining, characterization of genes related to drought tolerance, and explores the approaches to enhance crop drought tolerance. Collectively, this review illustrates the application prospect of these genes in improving the drought tolerance breeding of crop plants.https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/22/19/10265drought tolerancephenotypic criteriagene mininggenetic improvementmolecular breedingcrop plants |
| spellingShingle | Jingyi Wang Chaonan Li Long Li Matthew Reynolds Xinguo Mao Ruilian Jing Exploitation of Drought Tolerance-Related Genes for Crop Improvement International Journal of Molecular Sciences drought tolerance phenotypic criteria gene mining genetic improvement molecular breeding crop plants |
| title | Exploitation of Drought Tolerance-Related Genes for Crop Improvement |
| title_full | Exploitation of Drought Tolerance-Related Genes for Crop Improvement |
| title_fullStr | Exploitation of Drought Tolerance-Related Genes for Crop Improvement |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploitation of Drought Tolerance-Related Genes for Crop Improvement |
| title_short | Exploitation of Drought Tolerance-Related Genes for Crop Improvement |
| title_sort | exploitation of drought tolerance related genes for crop improvement |
| topic | drought tolerance phenotypic criteria gene mining genetic improvement molecular breeding crop plants |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/22/19/10265 |
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