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Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants, Vol 2 - Molecular and Genetic Perspectives (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
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Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants, Vol 2 - Molecular and Genetic Perspectives (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
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Drought is one of the most severe constraints to crop productivity
worldwide, and thus it has become a major concern for global food
security. Due to an increasing world population, droughts could
lead to serious food shortages by 2050. The situation may worsen
due to predicated climatic changes that may increase the frequency,
duration and severity of droughts. Hence, there is an urgent need
to improve our understanding of the complex mechanisms associated
with drought tolerance and to develop modern crop varieties that
are more resilient to drought. Identification of the genes
responsible for drought tolerance in plants will contribute to our
understanding of the molecular mechanisms that could enable crop
plants to respond to drought. The discovery of novel drought
related genes, the analysis of their expression patterns in
response to drought, and determination of the functions these genes
play in drought adaptation will provide a base to develop effective
strategies to enhance the drought tolerance of crop plants. Plant
breeding efforts to increase crop yields in dry environments have
been slow to date mainly due to our poor understanding of the
molecular and genetic mechanisms involved in how plants respond to
drought. In addition, when it comes to combining favourable
alleles, there are practical obstacles to developing superior high
yielding genotypes fit for drought prone environments. Drought
Tolerance in Plants, Vol 2: Molecular and Genetic Perspectives
combines novel topical findings, regarding the major molecular and
genetic events associated with drought tolerance, with contemporary
crop improvement approaches. This volume is unique as it makes
available for its readers not only extensive reports of existing
facts and data, but also practical knowledge and overviews of
state-of-the-art technologies, across the biological fields, from
plant breeding using classical and molecular genetic information,
to the modern omic technologies, that are now being used in drought
tolerance research to breed drought-related traits into modern crop
varieties. This book is useful for teachers and researchers in the
fields of plant breeding, molecular biology and biotechnology.
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