Plant Breeding for Water-Limited Environments /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Blum, Abraham. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edición:1st ed. 2011.
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505 0 |a Preface -- The Moisture Environment -- The Palmer drought index -- The crop moisture index -- The conventions of crop water use -- Plant Water Relations, Plant Stress and Plant Production -- The initiation of plant water deficit -- The soil-plant-atmosphere continuum (SPAC) -- The albedo -- The water flux -- Root resistance -- Stem resistance -- Leaf resistance (excluding stomata and cuticle) -- Stomatal resistance -- Cuticular resistance -- Plant size and the development of water deficit -- Plant water status and plant stress -- Osmotic adjustment (OA) -- Abscisic acid (ABA) -- Growth and water deficit -- Root growth under drought stress -- The formation of yield and drought stress -- Drought Resistance and its Improvement -- Genetic gains achieved in plant breeding for drought resistance -- Genomics and breeding for drought resistance -- Gene expression and gene discovery -- Marker-assisted selection (MAS) for drought resistance -- Transgenic plants -- Drought resistance in terms of yield -- Drought resistance and yield potential: the crossover interaction -- The heritability of yield and drought stress -- QTLs and yield under drought stress -- Drought resistance in terms of physiology -- The disease resistance analogy -- The components of drought resistance -- Water-use efficiency (WUE) -- Effective use of water (EUW) and not WUE is the important driver of yield under drought stress -- Summary of plant constitutive traits controlling drought resistance -- The drought resistant ideotype -- The ideotype with respect to drought stress scenarios -- The ideotype with respect to timing of stress -- Phenotyping and Selection -- The managed stress environment -- Site homogeneity -- Experiment station faults -- Controlling the water regime -- Controlling the severity and timing of stress in the field -- Managed drought in protected environments -- Protocols for drought resistance -- Plant growth and productivity -- Plant water status – the expression of dehydration avoidance -- Dehydration tolerance -- High throughput commercial phenotyping service -- Genetic Resources for Drought Resistance -- Cultivated germplasm -- Landraces -- Wild species and crop plant progenitors -- Drought resistant transgenic plants -- Resurrection plants -- Breeding Considerations and Strategies -- Epilogue. 
650 0 |a Plant breeding. 
650 0 |a Plant science. 
650 0 |a Botany. 
650 0 |a Plant genetics. 
650 1 4 |a Plant Breeding/Biotechnology. 
650 2 4 |a Plant Sciences. 
650 2 4 |a Plant Genetics and Genomics. 
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