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  title info:
    title: Plant Breeding for Water-Limited Environments
  name:
    name part: Blum, Abraham.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 255 p. online resource.
  abstract: "In general, the book will cater to the needs of plant breeders, researchers/scientists, under-graduate, and graduate students in the field of agriculture. It is a valuable contribution to the current knowledge on breeding for drought tolerance and provides historical background, successes, and potential for the future. We strongly recommend this book to readers as a valuable source of information and a worthwhile addition to one’s book shelf." - Crop Science Plant breeding for water limited environments has always been a contemporary issue in dryland and rainfed agriculture. However, formal knowledge and methodology in this specific plant breeding domain has been scattered and even lacking, mainly because it is an interdisciplinary endeavor. With the recent looming problem of global warming and water crisis the issue is becoming even more urgent and timely. This book is the first comprehensive and singular treaties on the subject which integrates theory and practice to the extent that it can be used as a plant breeding manual. A main task in writing this book was to sort out the grain from the chaff. In order to achieve it, some threshing was required. The book opens with the essential background on the moisture environment and how it affects plant water status, plant function and plant productivity. It continues from there to explain how plants cope with drought stress by plant constitutive or stress adaptive traits which help to avoid or tolerate dehydration. It concentrates on traits and processes which can be manipulate by plant breeding, separately from those which to date have not yet reached the state of application. Methods of phenotyping and selection for drought resistance are dealt with in detail concentrating again on proven utility, especially under field conditions. Genetic diversity and genetic resources, either practical or potential are discussed and sorted out. Finally, all of the above is funneled into a discussion of some exemplary breeding sche…
  table of contents: Preface -- The Moisture Environment -- The Palmer drought index -- The crop moisture index -- The conventions of crop water use -- Plant Water Relations, Plant Stress and Plant Production -- The initiation of plant water deficit -- The soil-plant-atmosphere continuum (SPAC) -- The albedo -- The water flux -- Root resistance -- Stem resistance -- Leaf resistance (excluding stomata and cuticle) -- Stomatal resistance -- Cuticular resistance -- Plant size and the development of water deficit -- Plant water status and plant stress -- Osmotic adjustment (OA) -- Abscisic acid (ABA) -- Growth and water deficit -- Root growth under drought stress -- The formation of yield and drought stress -- Drought Resistance and its Improvement -- Genetic gains achieved in plant breeding for drought resistance -- Genomics and breeding for drought resistance -- Gene expression and gene discovery -- Marker-assisted selection (MAS) for drought resistance -- Transgenic plants -- Drought resistance in terms of yield -- Drought resistance and yield potential: the crossover interaction -- The heritability of yield and drought stress -- QTLs and yield under drought stress -- Drought resistance in terms of physiology -- The disease resistance analogy -- The components of drought resistance -- Water-use efficiency (WUE) -- Effective use of water (EUW) and not WUE is the important driver of yield under drought stress -- Summary of plant constitutive traits controlling drought resistance -- The drought resistant ideotype -- The ideotype with respect to drought stress scenarios -- The ideotype with respect to timing of stress -- Phenotyping and Selection -- The managed stress environment -- Site homogeneity -- Experiment station faults -- Controlling the water regime -- Controlling the severity and timing of stress in the field -- Managed drought in protected environments -- Protocols for drought resistance -- Plant growth and productivity -- Plant water status – the expression of dehydration avoida…
  note: by Abraham Blum.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Plant science
  subject:
    topic: Botany
  subject:
    topic: Plant genetics
  subject:
    topic: Plant breeding
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Plant Breeding/Biotechnology
  subject:
    topic: Plant Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Plant Genetics & Genomics
  classification: SB123-123.5
  classification: S494.5.B563
  classification: 631.52
  classification: 660.6
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    record creation date: 101109
    record change date: 20151204175522.0
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