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Developing drought tolerant crops: hopes and challenges in an exciting journey

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/9042/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/FPv41n11_FO
10.1071/FPv41n11_FO
 
Title Developing drought tolerant crops: hopes and challenges in an exciting journey
 
Creator Vadez, V
Palta, J
Berger, J
 
Subject Plant Physiology
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Under increasing water scarcity, food production for an increasing population is a global challenge. Maintaining crop production under limiting water supply is a common problem in agriculture, which is best addressed by the coordinated efforts of geneticists, physiologists and agronomists. This special issue is a selection of oral and poster presentations at the InterDrought IV conference, held in Perth (2–6 September 2013). These papers provide a broad, multidisciplinary view on the way to develop improved cultivars in the face of water deficit, providing the conference highlight: an integration of views from different disciplinary angles, generating constructive debate that was not buried in disciplinary silos. More specifically, the topics covered deal with the challenge of adaptation implicit in genotype-by-environment interaction, bring new perspectives on root systems and water productivity, and review the challenges and opportunities provided by crop management, genomic and transgenic approaches to cultivar improvement.
 
Publisher CSIRO Publishing
 
Date 2014-09-30
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/9042/1/ng%20journe.pdf
Vadez, V and Palta, J and Berger, J (2014) Developing drought tolerant crops: hopes and challenges in an exciting journey. Functional Plant Biology, 41 (11). ISSN 1445-4408