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Functional Genomics for Tolerance to Abiotic Stress in Cereals

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/5957/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2359-6_16
 
Title Functional Genomics for Tolerance to Abiotic Stress in Cereals
 
Creator Sreenivasulu, N.
Varshney, R K
Kishore, P K
Weschke, W
 
Subject Genetics and Genomics
 
Description The world food grain production needs to be doubled by
the year 2050 to meet the ever growing demands of the
population (Tilman et al., 2002). This goal needs to be achieved despite
decreased arable land, dwindling water resources, and the environmental
constraints such as drought, water logging, excess heat, frost, salinity, metal
toxicity and nutrient imbalances, which cause major losses in cereal grain
production. Drought, salinity and cold stress alone are known to cause
nearly 35% of cereal crop losses throughout the world (Quarrie et al., 1999).
The effectiveness of traditional breeding approaches to deal with the
problem is limited due to complex nature of stress tolerance traits and due to
incompatibility barriers encountered during transfer of genes from wild
species to cultivated ones. Therefore, newer strategies need to be used for
developing crop plants that
 
Publisher Springer Netherlands
 
Date 2005
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/5957/1/BC_Functional_483-514_2005.pdf
Sreenivasulu, N. and Varshney, R K and Kishore, P K and Weschke, W (2005) Functional Genomics for Tolerance to Abiotic Stress in Cereals. In: Cereal Genomics. Springer Netherlands, pp. 483-514. ISBN 978-1-4020-2359-0