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
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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
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
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.
By Ascher-Ellis,
2001
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
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
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.
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.