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Impact of combined abiotic and biotic stresses on plant growth and avenues for crop improvement by exploiting physio-morphological traits

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Title Impact of combined abiotic and biotic stresses on plant growth and avenues for crop improvement by exploiting physio-morphological traits
 
Creator Pandey, Prachi
Irulappan, Vadivel M.
Bagavathiannan, Muthukumar V.
Senthil-Kumar, Muthappa
 
Subject stress interaction
Stress combinations
Morpho-physiological traits
drought and pathogen infection
Crop Production
productivity
 
Description Accepted date: 27 Mar 2017
Global warming leads to the concurrence of a number of abiotic and biotic stresses, thus affecting agricultural productivity. Occurrence of abiotic stresses can alter plant-pest interactions by enhancing host plant susceptibility to pathogenic organisms, insects, and by reducing competitive ability with weeds. On the contrary, some pests may alter plant response to abiotic stress factors. Therefore, systematic studies are pivotal to understand the effect of concurrent abiotic and biotic stress conditions on crop productivity. However, to date, a collective database on the occurrence of various stress combinations in agriculturally-prominent areas is not available. This review attempts to assemble published information on this topic, with a particular focus on the impact of combined drought and pathogen stresses on crop productivity. In doing so, this review highlights some agriculturally important morpho-physiological traits that can be utilized to identify genotypes with combined stress tolerance. In addition, this review outlines potential role of recent genomic tools in deciphering combined stress tolerance in plants. This review will, therefore, be helpful for agronomists and field pathologists in assessing the impact of the interactions between drought and plant-pathogens on crop performance. Further, the review will be helpful for physiologists and molecular biologists to design agronomically relevant strategies for the development of broad spectrum stress tolerant crops.
Combined stress tolerance related projects at MS-K lab were supported by DBT-innovative young biotechnologist award (BT/09/IYBA/2015/07) and DBT-Ramalingaswami re-entry fellowship grant (BT/RLF/re-entry/23/2012). PP and VM acknowledge financial support from SERB young scientist (SB/YS/LS-71/2014) and DBT-JRF (DBT/2015/NIPGR/430) schemes, respectively.
 
Date 2017-04-13T10:11:57Z
2017-04-13T10:11:57Z
2017
 
Type Article
 
Identifier Front. Plant Sc., 8: 537
1664-462X
http://59.163.192.83:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/731
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpls.2017.00537/full
10.3389/fpls.2017.00537
 
Language en_US
 
Publisher Frontiers Media S.A.