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Understanding how plants tolerate drought, with a view to plant breeding, is a difficult challenge. Before considering the variability of drought and adaptation strategies, interdisciplinary approaches are necessary to identify mechanisms acting from the molecule to the species level leading to drought adaptation. Coordinating results obtained at different levels of perception into a global analysis allows the identification of the emergent properties of drought tolerance. In this book 11 reviews present the state of the art in this subject of drought tolerance. After defining drought and drought tolerance in the wild and in crops, responses and adaptations to drought are analyzed at different levels of organization (molecule, cell, organ and whole plant). The strategies and difficulties of drought tolerance breeding are described and the possibilities of improvement using new tools are proposed.

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Author:   E. Belhassen
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Reprinted from PLANT GROWTH REGULATION, 20:2, 1996
Weight:   0.437kg
ISBN:  

9780792341239

ISBN 10:   0792341236
Pages:   104
Publication Date:   31 December 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Drought and drought tolerance.- The diversity of drought adaptation in the wide.- Drought perception by plants. Do cells of droughted plants experience water stress?.- Drought signal transduction in plants.- Responses of plants to dehydration stress: a molecular analysis.- Plant cellular responses to water deficit.- Mutants as tools to understand cellular and molecular drought tolerance mechanisms.- Crop responses to drought and the interpretation of adaptation.- Drought as a challenge for the plant breeder.- Defining selection criteria to improve yield under drought.- New molecular tools to improve the efficiency of breeding for increased drought resistance.

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