Type: Book
Part 1 Understanding mechanisms of drought tolerance
1.Physiological traits affecting water use and water use efficiency in cereals in response to drought stress: Thomas R. Sinclair, North Carolina State University, USA; and Michel E. Ghanem, Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD), France and Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco;
2.The role of plant hormones in adaptation to drought stress in cereals: Arnauld A. Thiry, Lancaster Environment Centre, UK; Matthew P. Reynolds, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico; and William J. Davies and Ian C. Dodd, Lancaster Environment Centre, UK;
3.The role of drought stress-induced proteins in regulating drought resistance in cereals: John Cushman, University of Nevada-Reno, USA;
Part 2 Techniques for improving resistance
4.Identifying and exploiting drought tolerance traits in wild cereals, varieties and landraces: Zvi Peleg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel;
5.Advances in phenotyping to identify drought-resistance traits in cereal roots: Jack Christopher, University of Queensland, Australia;
6.Advanced genetic techniques to identify and evaluate drought-adaptive loci in cereals: Roberto Tuberosa, University of Bologna, Italy;
7.Identifying and exploiting genes related to root system architecture in improving drought resistance in cereals: Eric Ober, NIAB, UK;
8.Identifying and exploiting photosynthetic genes in improving drought resistance in cereals: Ruilian Jing, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China;
9.Genomic selection, gene editing and genetic engineering for drought tolerance in cereals: Rodomiro Ortiz, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden;