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Book Evaluation of Tolerance to Post anthesis Drought Stress in Spring Wheat

Download or read book Evaluation of Tolerance to Post anthesis Drought Stress in Spring Wheat written by Philip Lyle Bruckner and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Evaluation of Selection Regimes for Improving Drought Tolerance in Spring Wheat

Download or read book Evaluation of Selection Regimes for Improving Drought Tolerance in Spring Wheat written by Francis M. Kirigwi and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Evaluation of Plant Drought Stress Parameters in Spring Wheat

Download or read book An Evaluation of Plant Drought Stress Parameters in Spring Wheat written by Katim Seringe Touray and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Effects of Drought and High Temperature Stress on Reproduction  Physiology  and Yield of Spring and Winter Wheat

Download or read book The Effects of Drought and High Temperature Stress on Reproduction Physiology and Yield of Spring and Winter Wheat written by Kyle J. Shroyer and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drought and high temperature are major detriments to global wheat production. Wheat varies in its susceptibility to drought and high temperature stress. Three experiments were performed to address the challenges of drought and high temperature stress in wheat. The first experiment consisted of 256 genotypes of spring wheat and 301 genotypes of winter wheat, field screened for yield traits related to drought tolerance, in irrigated and dryland experiments. The experimental designs for the first experiment were both augmented incomplete block designs with one-way or row-column blocking. This experiment was performed at the Ashland Bottom Research Farm, south of Manhattan, KS, between 2011-2013. From this experiment, three conclusions were made: wheat genotypes vary widely in their responses between dryland and irrigated treatments and this variation can be used in future experiments or breeding tolerant genotypes. The number of seeds per unit of area, total biomass per unit area, and the average weight of one thousand seeds, were the best yield traits for predicting yield in both irrigated and dryland environments. Twenty genotypes were selected for future research based on their susceptibility or tolerance to drought. The second experiment was performed in the greenhouse facilities to observe the source-sink relationship of spring wheat genotype Seri 82 under drought and defoliation. The experiment was a randomized complete block design with a split-plot treatment arrangement. Post-anthesis cessation of watering and defoliation were the treatments. Both water stress and defoliation affected seed yield and total biomass. The major effect of post-anthesis water stress was a decrease in single seed weight. Defoliation affected the source-sink relationship by reducing the source strength of the leaves. This caused the stem to contribute more to overall yield. The defoliation also caused the remaining leaves to compensate for the removed leaves. The final experiment evaluated the changes in seed-filling rate and duration of three winter wheat genotypes during high temperature stress. High temperature stress reduced the duration of seed fill and increased the rate, differently in each genotype. Higher yields in the winter wheat growing regions, susceptible to post-anthesis high temperature stress, may be possible through selection of cultivars with faster seed-filling rates and/or duration of seed filling.

Book Tef   Eragrostis Tef  Zucc

    Book Details:
  • Author : Seyfu Ketema
  • Publisher : Bioversity International
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9290433043
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book Tef Eragrostis Tef Zucc written by Seyfu Ketema and published by Bioversity International. This book was released on 1997 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Abiotic Stress Tolerance from the Tertiary Gene Pool of Common Wheat

Download or read book Abiotic Stress Tolerance from the Tertiary Gene Pool of Common Wheat written by Andrew Justin Green and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heat and drought stress are two of the most significant abiotic stresses limiting wheat production in the Great Plains and worldwide. Introgression of novel tolerance genes from wild relatives is a strategy which presents promise. This study examined both heat and drought tolerance from the tetraploid species Aegilops geniculata (U[superscript g]U[superscript g]M[superscript g]M[superscript g]). Additional screening for heat tolerance was conducted with the US genome species Aegilops peregrina (Hack) and Aegilops kotschyi (Boiss). A comprehensive screening system for drought tolerance was also constructed to evaluate wheat and its wild relatives. Previous reports suggested that Ae. geniculata accession TA2899 was moderately tolerant to heat stress. It had also previously been used to develop a full set of wheat-Ae. geniculata chromosome addition lines in a Chinese Spring background. To identify the chromosome(s) carrying the heat tolerance, all addition lines, as well as wheat check genotypes, were screened for post-anthesis heat tolerance in two growth chamber experiments. No chromosome addition lines were significantly different (p

Book Application of Physiology in Wheat Breeding

Download or read book Application of Physiology in Wheat Breeding written by M. P. Reynolds and published by CIMMYT. This book was released on 2001 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Plant Breeding For Stress Environments

Download or read book Plant Breeding For Stress Environments written by Abraham Blum and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication opens with the inevitable introduction, moves on to the present traditional approach to breeding for yield stability, and then enumerates a detailed discussion of the physiological approach to breeding for resistance to specific stresses. Not all environmental stresses are covered, omitting those for which little can be said today on practical breeding solutions.

Book Wheat Improvement for Heat and Drought Stress Tolerance

Download or read book Wheat Improvement for Heat and Drought Stress Tolerance written by Anju Giri and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heat and drought are the major abiotic factors that limit wheat production worldwide. Wheat is one of the important staple crops, so, the production decline due to these factors faces a major challenge in addressing food security. Grain filling in wheat occurs when the temperature is rising, and soil moisture is declining in most wheat growing environment, so there is high demand in breeding wheat for post anthesis heat and drought stress tolerance. However, limited genetic variability in wheat cultivars possess a challenge. The objective of the first study was to screen wild emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccoides) for post anthesis heat tolerance and measure physiological traits and yield trait associated with the tolerance. Twenty-one accessions of Triticum dicoccoides and four check varieties were screened at optimum temperature (25/19 °C day/night) and high temperature (35/29 °C day/night). High temperature decreased flag leaf survival duration, chlorophyll content, and chlorophyll fluorescence more in the wild accessions than in the checks. A few wild accessions were found to be heat tolerant based on the lower heat susceptibility index (HSI) value in seed weight. Therefore, there is a potential for utilizing this genetic variability from the accessions to improve post anthesis heat tolerance in wheat. The maintenance in seed weight might be coming from the mobilization of stored reserve in the stem. The stem reserves are commonly called water-soluble carbohydrates (WSC). WSC accumulated during the vegetative stage, pre-flowering, or right after flowering can be mobilized to assist grain filling when assimilate supply is limited under stress. The second chapter is about the physiological and genetic basis of water-soluble carbohydrates (WSC) concentration during mid- grainfilling stage in wheat. We evaluated 400 diverse winter wheat breeding lines and 30 released varieties in different environments ranging from irrigated to rainfed for WSC concentration. WSC concentration was significantly and positively correlated with the seed weight, whereas the height was mostly negatively correlated, and we didn't see any relation with heading date. Less decline in grain yield under simulated terminal drought stress was observed in varieties with high WSC content. Further, we identified six significant SNP markers in 7D region significantly associated with the WSC concentration, and each marker explained 4-5% of the variation. On running several genomic selection prediction models on WSC using ridge regression, partial least squares, elastic net, and random forest models and different training population sizes (20%, 40%, 60%, and 80%), the prediction accuracy increased from 0.2 to 0.6. The accuracy increased as a large amount of data was available to train the model, and overall the highest accuracy was observed with the random forest and average of all four models. The accuracy can be further increased with the inclusion of a large number of samples, and multi- year and location testing on WSC. Higher genetic variation, high heritability, and significant positive relation with seed weight make WSC an important trait for selection under post anthesis drought. In the third study, aerial phenotyping using UAV with a multispectral camera was used to capture the images in three different wave bands: red, green, and near infrared. Normalized Difference Vegetative Index (NDVI) was calculated from red and near infrared bands. NDVI calculated from the aerial imaging during reproductive stages were more correlated with the grain yield than a visual screening of percentage greenness. NDVI measurement during grain filling had the highest significant correlation and explained more than 50% variation in the yield. Lodging was another factor impacting yield explaining about 60% variability in yield. With its wide applicability, aerial phenotyping has the potential for assisting breeders in selecting diverse genotypes and can outperform visual selection.

Book Wheat  Prospects for Global Improvement

Download or read book Wheat Prospects for Global Improvement written by H.-J. Braun and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains the proceedings of the Fifth International Wheat Conference at which leading international scientists reviewed current research issues and developments in wheat improvement. The debated topics cover breeding and genetics, genetic resources and importance of free germplasm exchange, breeding for biotic and abiotic stresses, physiology, agronomy and mineral nutrition, grain quality and biotechnology. A significant number of presentations were made by participants from the former USSR and Eastern and Central Europe, making this book also a prime reference for current wheat research and production status in these countries. This book provides an opportunity for wheat scientists interested in global wheat improvement issues to obtain an insight into the research that is currently being conducted worldwide and the prospects of further improvement to meet the increasing demands for this food commodity.

Book Dissertation Abstracts International

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1992-11 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants  Vol 2

Download or read book Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants Vol 2 written by Mohammad Anwar Hossain and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Abiotic Stress Mediated Sensing and Signaling in Plants  An Omics Perspective

Download or read book Abiotic Stress Mediated Sensing and Signaling in Plants An Omics Perspective written by Sajad Majeed Zargar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The natural environment for plants is composed of a complex set of abiotic and biotic stresses; plant responses to these stresses are equally complex. Systems biology allows us to identify regulatory hubs in complex networks. It also examines the molecular “parts” (transcripts, proteins and metabolites) of an organism and attempts to combine them into functional networks or models that effectively describe and predict the dynamic activities of that organism in different environments. This book focuses on research advances regarding plant responses to abiotic stresses, from the physiological level to the molecular level. It highlights new insights gained from the integration of omics datasets and identifies remaining gaps in our knowledge, outlining additional focus areas for future crop improvement research. Plants have evolved a wide range of mechanisms for coping with various abiotic stresses. In many crop plants, the molecular mechanisms involved in a single type of stress tolerance have since been identified; however, in order to arrive at a holistic understanding of major and common events concerning abiotic stresses, the signaling pathways involved must also be elucidated. To date several molecules, like transcription factors and kinases, have been identified as promising candidates that are involved in crosstalk between stress signalling pathways. However, there is a need to better understand the tolerance mechanisms for different abiotic stresses by thoroughly grasping the signalling and sensing mechanisms involved. Accordingly, this book covers a range of topics, including the impacts of different abiotic stresses on plants, the molecular mechanisms leading to tolerance for different abiotic stresses, signaling cascades revealing cross-talk among various abiotic stresses, and elucidation of major candidate molecules that may provide abiotic stress tolerance in plants.

Book Crop Responses to Environment

Download or read book Crop Responses to Environment written by Anthony E. Hall and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-12-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crop Responses to Environment discusses the principles, theories, and experimental observations concerning plant responses to environment that are particularly relevant to developing improved crop cultivars and management methods. The book illustrates the importance of considering emergent plant properties as well as reductionist approaches to understanding plant function and adaptation. Dr. Hall explains many practical applications to plant breeding, agronomy, and horticulture. He examines plant physiological and developmental responses to light and temperature as well as plant water-relations. He also describes climatic zone definitions based on temperature, rainfall, and evaporative demand in relation to plant adaptation and the prediction of crop water use. Irrigation management and crop responses to salinity and toxic levels of boron and aluminum are considered. Numerous figures and tables illustrate the climates of major agricultural zones, giving a thorough knowledge of which crop species and production systems are effective in different climates. The book concludes with an analysis illustrating the relevance of crop responses to environment to plant breeding. The practical examples in this book, some of them pulled from Dr. Hall's research, show your students the principles provided by Crop Response to Environment can be used in developing improved crop production systems.

Book Genetic Aspects of Plant Mineral Nutrition

Download or read book Genetic Aspects of Plant Mineral Nutrition written by W.H. Gabelman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the proceedings of the Second International Sym posium on Genetic Aspects ofPlant Minerai Nutrition, held in Madison, Wisconsin in 1985. The mechanisms by which plants acquire, transport and utilize essential minerai nutrients are highly complex. The means by which plants either exclude or tolerate ions of metals toxic to plants are equally complex. The first symposium attempted to convene research scientists con cerned with minerai nutrition for the purpose of exploring the kinds of minerai nutrition phenomena identified as being under genetic contro!. The first symposium also placed much emphasis on research to which genetic intervention might be applied. At the second symposium more papers were presented on genetic and breeding research, a long-term objective of the first symposium. The second symposium also included biotic interactions under genetic con trol that either enhanced or impeded ion uptake, e.g. mycorrhizae and nitrogen fixing bacteria. This continuing dialogue is essential for a research area the complexity of which is due to its interdisciplinary nature.