Drought Adaptation in Cereals

• About the Editor
  
• Contributors
  
• Foreword (John C. O’Toole)
  
• Acknowledgments
  
• PART I. GENERAL CONTEXT
  
• Chapter 1. Drought Adaptation in Cereal Crops: A Prologue (Abraham Blum)
  
• The Reality of Drought Resistance in Cereal Crop Cultivars
  
• Effective Drought Resistance Mechanisms in Cereals
  
• The Genomic Approach
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 2. Economic Impact of Water-Limited Conditions on Cereal Grain Production (Paul W. Heisey and Michael L. Morris)
  
• Defining the Issues
  
• Defining and Measuring Economic Impact
  
• Mitigating the Effects of Water-Limited Conditions
  
• Conclusion
  
• PART II. PLANT DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTION
  
• Chapter 3. Genotype-by-Environment Interactions Under Water-Limited Conditions (Mark Cooper, Fred van Eeuwijk, Scott C. Chapman, Dean W. Podlich, and Carlos Löffler)
  
• GEI and Drought
  
• Examples of Genetic Progress for Yield in Dryland Environments
  
• A Framework for Studying GEI
  
• Discussion
  
• Chapter 4. Secondary Traits for Drought Tolerance Improvement in Cereals (Philippe Monneveux and Jean-Marcel Ribaut)
  
• Crop Response to Water-Limited Conditions
  
• The Potential Interest of Secondary Traits
  
• How to Establish the Value of Secondary Traits
  
• The Use of Secondary Traits in the Selection Process
  
• Secondary Traits Successfully Deployed in Cereal Improvement Programs
  
• Perspectives: Development in Physiological and Molecular Measurements
  
• Chapter 5. Leaf Growth Under Water-Limited Conditions (François Tardieu)
  
• Processes Involved in the Control of Leaf Growth
  
• Quantification of the Phenotype: Responses of Leaf Elongation Rate to Several Environmental Conditions
  
• Concluding Remarks
  
• Chapter 6. The Application of Carbon Isotope Discrimination in Cereal Improvement for Water-Limited Environments (Anthony G. Condon, Graham D. Farquhar, Greg. J. Rebetzke, and Richard A. Richards)
  
• Carbon Isotope Discrimination: A Physiological Marker for High Transpiration Efficiency
  
• Variation in ¹³C of C₃ Cereals
  
• Carbon Isotope Discrimination and Measures of Performance
  
• Case Study: Application of Carbon Isotope Analysis in Wheat Breeding for Australia
  
• Other Potential Applications for Carbon Isotope Discrimination in Cereal Improvement
  
• Future Directions
  
• Conclusion
  
• PART III. PLANT IMPROVEMENT IN SELECTED CEREALS: GENETICS, PHYSIOLOGY, AND BREEDING
  
• Chapter 7. Drought Adaptation in Barley (Mark E. Sorrells, Ayman Diab, and Dominique This)
  
• Genetics of Drought Tolerance in Barley
  
• Physiology of Drought Tolerance in Barley
  
• QTL Studies of Drought Tolerance
  
• Comparative Analysis of Drought Tolerance with Other Cereals
  
• Breeding for Drought Tolerance
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 8. Drought Adaptation in Maize (Mark C. Sawkins, Julien DeMeyer, and Jean-Marcel Ribaut)
  
• Phenotypic Selection
  
• Farmer Participation: Mother-Baby Trials
  
• Genetic Dissection of Target Traits
  
• The Genomic Approach
  
• The CIMMYT Approach
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 9. Drought Adaptation in Rice (Renee Lafitte, John Bennett, and Arumugam Kathiresan)
  
• Breeding Rice for Improved Drought Tolerance
  
• Functional Genomic Approaches to Drought in Rice
  
• Conclusions and Opportunities
  
• Chapter 10. Drought Adaptation in Sorghum (Andrew Borrell, David Jordan, John Mullett, Bob Henzell, and Graeme Hammer)
  
• Drought Resistance Breeding in Grain Sorghum
  
• Physiological Basis of Drought Adaptation in Sorghum
  
• Physiological Traits to Combat Drought
  
• Isolation and Characterization of Sorghum Genes for Drought Adaptation
  
• Combining Genetic and Management Solutions to Combat Drought
  
• Conclusions
  
• Chapter 11. Drought Adaptation in Wheat (Matthew P. Reynolds, Greg Rebetzke, Alessandro Pellegrineschi, and Richard Trethowan)
  
• Drought Environments
  
• The Complexity of Drought As an Agronomic Concept
  
• Conceptual Models of Drought Adaptation
  
• Exploitation of Genetic Diversity
  
• Genetic Considerations When Breeding for Yield Under Drought
  
• Conclusions
  
• PART IV. PLANT RESPONSE TO WATER STRESS: METABOLISM AND GENE EXPRESSION
  
• Chapter 12. Carbohydrate Metabolism Under Water-Limited Conditions (Axel Tiessen, John Lunn, and Peter Geigenberger)
  
• Photosynthesis and Carbohydrate Metabolism in Leaves
  
• From Source to Sink: Carbohydrate Transport
  
• The Fate of Carbohydrate in Sink Tissues
  
• The Plant As an Integrated System
  
• Prospects for Plant Breeding
  
• The Future of Marker-Assisted Selection
  
• Conclusions
  
• Chapter 13. The Role of Abscisic Acid Under Water-Limited Conditions (Tim L. Setter)
  
• Stomata
  
• Aquaporins
  
• LEAs and Osmolytes
  
• Growth Regulation
  
• Seed Dormancy
  
• Kernel Set
  
• ABA Synthesis
  
• Genetic Improvement of ABA Accumulation
  
• Chapter 14. Protection Mechanisms Against Water Deficit Stress: Desiccation Tolerance in Seeds As a Study Case (Linda Mtwisha, Jill Farrant, Wolf Brandt, and George Lindsey)
  
• The Role of Water in Biological Processes
  
• Protection Mechanisms Against Water-Deficit Stress
  
• Conclusions
  
• Chapter 15. Genetic Basis of Ion Homeostasis and Water Deficit (Hans J. Bohnert, Ray A. Bressan, and P. Michael Hasegawa)
  
• The Connectivity of Salt and Drought Response Pathways
  
• Ion Homeostasis
  
• Biotechnological Strategies to Improve Crop Salt Tolerance by Modulating Ion Homeostasis
  
• Chapter 16. The DRE/DREB Regulon of Gene Expression in Arabidopsis and Rice in Response to Drought and Cold Stress (Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, Yoh Sakuma, Yusuke Ito, and Kazuo Shinozaki)
  
• Transcriptome Analysis of Abiotic Stress-Inducible Gene Expression in Rice
  
• DRE/DREB Regulon in Arabidopsis
  
• Conclusions
  
• Chapter 17. What Can We Learn from Resurrection Plants? (Dorothea Bartels, Andrea Ditzer, and Antonella Furini)
  
• Description of Resurrection Plants
  
• The Role of the Phytohormone Abscisic Acid
  
• Identification of Gene Products Relevant to Desiccation Tolerance
  
• Regulation of Gene Expression in Resurrection Plants in the Context of the Knowledge Gained from Studies Using Other Nondesiccation-Tolerant Plants
  
• How Does the Study of Resurrection Plants Advance Our Understanding of Desiccation Tolerance?
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

Biography

Jean-Marcel Ribaut