Journal article
Heat stress in crop plants: Its nature, impacts and integrated breeding strategies to improve heat tolerance
Plant Breeding, Vol.133(6), pp.679-701
2014
Abstract
Increasing severity of high temperature worldwide presents an alarming threat to the humankind. As evident by massive yield losses in various food crops, the escalating adverse impacts of heat stress (HS) are putting the global food as well as nutritional security at great risk. Intrinsically, plants respond to high temperature stress by triggering a cascade of events and adapt by switching on numerous stress-responsive genes. However, the complex and poorly understood mechanism of heat tolerance (HT), limited access to the precise phenotyping techniques, and above all, the substantial G × E effects offer major bottlenecks to the progress of breeding for improving HT. Therefore, focus should be given to assess the crop diversity, and targeting the adaptive/morpho-physiological traits while making selections. Equally important is the rapid and precise introgression of the HT-related gene(s)/QTLs to the heat-susceptible cultivars to recover the genotypes with enhanced HT. Therefore, the progressive tailoring of the heat-tolerant genotypes demands a rational integration of molecular breeding, functional genomics and transgenic technologies reinforced with the next-generation phenomics facilities.
Details
- Title
- Heat stress in crop plants: Its nature, impacts and integrated breeding strategies to improve heat tolerance
- Authors/Creators
- U.C. Jha (Author/Creator) - Indian Institute of Pulses ResearchA. Bohra (Author/Creator) - Indian Institute of Pulses ResearchN.P. Singh (Author/Creator) - Indian Institute of Pulses ResearchR. Tuberosa (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Plant Breeding, Vol.133(6), pp.679-701
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing
- Identifiers
- 991005542588507891
- Copyright
- © 2014 Blackwell Verlag GmbH
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- 3 Agriculture, Environment & Ecology
- 3.4 Crop Science
- 3.4.424 Crop Yield Optimization
- Web Of Science research areas
- Agronomy
- Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
- Plant Sciences
- ESI research areas
- Plant & Animal Science