Plant Breeding
for Stress Environments (updated Oct.
2007)
This is a compilation of selected resources on plant
breeding for stress environments available on this web site. These resources are dealing with
stress-plant-breeding in the narrow-sense. The wider aspects of
breeding, biotechnology and genetics in plant stress can be found by browsing
this web site under 'Stresses', 'References', 'Biotech Issues', 'Recent
Reviews' and more.
Drought
Special article in the ‘Stresses’ section of this web site.
By Abraham Blum
Breeding
for drought and nitrogen stress in maize
By M.Banziger, G.O.Edmeades, G. Beck and M.Bellon, 2000
Wheat traits to improve yield in dry environments
By R.A. Richards, A.G. Condon, and G.J. Rebetzke, 2001
Molecular
and physiological approaches to maize improvement for drought tolerance
By W.B. Bruce, G.O. Edmeades and T.C. Barker. 2002
Breeding
rice for drought-prone environments.
Edited by Fischer K.S., Lafitte R.,
Fukai S., Atlin G. and Hardy B.; IRRI,
2003
Breeding beans for resistance to terminal
drought in the lowland tropics.
By M.A. Frahm et al., 2004
Improving drought tolerance
in maize: a view from industry
By H. Campos et al., 2004
By Abraham Blum, 2005
Genomics-based
approaches to improve drought tolerance of crops
By Roberto Tuberosa and Silvio
Salvi, 2006
Improving drought tolerance in
rainfed lowland rice: An example from Thailand
By Boonrat Jongdee et al., 2006.
Heat
Special article
in the ‘Stresses’ section of this web site.
By A.E. Hall
Breeding
wheat for heat tolerance
By M.P. Reynolds,
Breeding
for adaptation to drought and heat in cowpea
By A.E. Hall, 2004
Cold
Special article
in the ‘Stresses’ section of this web site.
By B. Fowler and A.E. Limin
Breeding
wheat for cold tolerance
By N.N. Saulescu and H.-J. Braun,
2001
Salinity
Special
article in the ‘Stresses’ section of this web site.
By Rana Munns, Sham S. Goyal, and
John Passioura
Screening & breeding wheat for
salt tolerance (technical)
By P.A. Hollington, 1998
By K.N. Singh and R Chatrath, 2001
Screening methods for salinity tolerance: a case study with
tetraploid wheat
By Rana Munns and Richard A. James, 2003.
Improving
crop salt tolerance.
By T.J. Flowers, 2003
Why does salinity pose such a
difficult problem for plant breeders?
By T.J. Flowers and
Increasing salt tolerance in the
tomato
By J. Cuartero
et al., 2006
Mineral
deficiency and nutrient efficiency
Special
article in the ‘Stresses’ section of this web site.
By Surya Kant and Uzi Kafkafi
Nitrogen and
phosphorus efficiency (wheat)
By J.I. Ortiz-Monasterio, G.G.B. Manske, and M. van Ginkel, 2001.
By Ascher-Ellis, 2001
By Z. Rengel, 2002
Mineral
toxicity
Acid soils
and aluminum toxicity
By A.R. Hede, B. Skovmand, and J.
López-Cesati, 2001
Plant
improvement for tolerance to aluminum in acid soils
By Deborah A. Samac and Mesfin Tesfaye, 2003
Aluminium tolerance in barley: physiology, genetics and
screening methods
By Jun-ping Wang et al., 2006
By Manabu Ishitani et al., 2004
Waterlogging
Special
article in the ‘Stresses’ section of this web site.
By M.B. Jackson
By P.C. Ram et al., 2002
Waterlogging
tolerance (wheat)
By A. Samad, C.A. Meisner, M.
Saifuzzaman, and M. van Ginkel, 2001
Molecular
breeding for waterlogging tolerance
By E.S. Dennis et al., 2000.
Prospects for germplasm improvement for waterlogging tolerance
in wheat, barley and oats
By T.L. Setter and
QTLS
and Genes
Transgenic plants for
stress resistance
BOOKS (unavailable online) (Check here for more books)
‘Plant
Breeding for Stress Environments’
By Abraham Blum, 1988
'Plant
Adaptation and Crop Improvement' (much on GxE in breeding for adaptation).
Edited by M. Cooper, G. L. Hammer;
CABI Publishing, 1996.
‘Physiology and Biotechnology Integration for
Plant Breeding’
Edited by by H.T. Nguyen and
Abraham Blum. Marcel
'Abiotic
Stresses: plant Resistance through Breeding and Molecular Approaches'.
Edited by M. Ashraf, P. J. C.
Harris Haworth Press, 2005
'Drought
Adaptation in Cereals' (selected
chapters).
Edited by Jean-Marcel Ribaut,
Hawthorn Press, 2006.
‘Advances in Molecular Breeding towards Drought and Salt
Tolerant Crops’ (selected chapters)
Edited by Jenks, Hasegawa and Jain. Springer 2007
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