Plant Breeding for Stress Environments

 

This is a compilation of available full-text resources on plant breeding for stress environments in its narrow sense. For wider aspects of breeding, biotechnology and genetics in plant stress resistance please browse this web site under 'Recent Reviews' and ‘New Books’ (see Files & Presentations).

 

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 

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

Drought resistance, water-use efficiency, and yield potential - are they compatible, dissonant, or mutually exclusive?

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.

Workshop on Pre-Breeding for Better Performance under Drought, 2007 – Summary and Recommendations

From GRDC, Australia, 2007.

Breeding drought tolerant cowpeas

By E. M. Agbicodo et al, 2009

Effective use of water (EUW) and not water-use efficiency (WUE) is the target of crop yield improvement under drought stress.

By A. Blum, 2009.

Faba bean breeding for drought-affected environments: A physiological and agronomic perspective

        By H.R. Khan, J.G. Paull, K.H.M. Siddique, F.L. Stoddard, 2010

Breeding for water-saving and drought-resistance rice (WDR) in China

        By L.J. Luo, 2010

Root biology and genetic improvement for drought avoidance in rice

By Veeresh R.P. Gowda, Amelia Henry, Akira Yamauchi, H.E. Shashidhar and Rachid Serraj, 2011

 

Heat

Special article in the ‘Stresses’ section of this web site.

By A.E. Hall

Breeding wheat for heat tolerance

By M.P. Reynolds, S. Nagarajan, M.A. Razzaque, and O.A.A. Ageeb, 2001

Breeding for adaptation to drought and heat in cowpea

By A.E. Hall, 2004

Influence of high temperature and breeding for heat tolerance in cotton: a review

By RP Singh, PV Prasad, K Sunita, SN Giri, 2007

 

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

Winter hardiness in faba bean: Physiology and breeding

W. Link, C. Balko,  and F.L. Stoddard, 2010.

 

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

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 S.A. Flowers, 2005

Increasing salt tolerance in the tomato

By J. Cuartero et al., 2006

Approaches to increasing the salt tolerance of wheat and other cereals

By Rana Munns, Richard A. James and Andre Lauchli, 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.

Micronutrients (wheat)

By Ascher-Ellis, 2001

Breeding for better symbiosis

By Z. Rengel, 2002

Identifying traits to improve the nitrogen economy of wheat: Recent advances and future prospects
       By M.J. Foulkes et al., 2009

Genetic improvement for phosphorus efficiency in soybean: a radical approach

Xiurong Wang, Xiaolong Yan and Hong Liao, 2010.

 

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

Integration of genomics approach with traditional breeding towards improving abiotic stress adaptation: drought and aluminum toxicity as case studies

By Manabu Ishitani et al., 2004

Can we really increase yields by making crop plants tolerant to boron toxicity?

By Rob Reid, 2010.

 

Waterlogging

Special article in the ‘Stresses’ section of this web site.

By M.B. Jackson

Submergence tolerance in rice

 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 I. Waters, 2003.

Review of wheat improvement for waterlogging tolerance in Australia and India: the importance of anaerobiosis and element toxicities associated with different soils

By T. L. Setter et al., 2009

 

QTLS and Genes

QTLs for stress resistance – a list

Transgenic plants for stress resistance – a list

 

General and integrated treaties

Application of physiology in wheat breeding (large file!)

By M.P. Reynolds, J.I. Ortiz-Monasterio and A. McNab (editors), 2001.

An Update on Biotechnological Approaches for Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Tomato

By Shashank K. Pandey, Akula Nookarajua, Chandrama P. Upadhyaya, Mayank A. Gururani, Jelli Venkatesh, Doo-Hwan Kim and Se Won Park, 2011.

 

BOOKS

‘Plant Breeding for Stress Environments’

By Abraham Blum, CRC Press, 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 Dekker, New York, 2004.

'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.

‘Genes for Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance’

Edited by Matthew A. Jenks and Andrew J. Wood. John Wiley & Sons 2009.

‘Plant Stress Tolerance: Methods and Protocols’ (mainly molecular methods)

Edited by Ramanjulu Sunkar; Humana Press, 2010.

Improving Crop Resistance to Abiotic Stress: -Omics Approaches.

Edited by Narendra Tuteja, Antonio F. Tiburcio, Sarvajeet Singh Gill, and  Renu Tuteja; John Wiley & Sons, 2011.