<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "Genetic engineering approaches for drought tolerance in grain legumes: progress and prospects"^^ . "Inadequate water resources and the ensuing climate change\r\nover the recent years are posing major challenges for food production.\r\nDrought in various forms is responsible for major losses\r\nto global crop production, affecting millions of resource-poor\r\nfarmers in the semi-arid tropics. While developing drought-tolerant\r\ncultivars could alleviate such economical strains, genetic\r\nimprovement of grain legumes is difficult to achieve through\r\nconventional means due to their highly self-pollinating characteristics\r\nand conserved genomes with very little variability.\r\nTo generate additional genetic diversity, we attempted to enhance\r\ndrought tolerance in chickpea and peanut through genetic\r\nengineering approaches. Independent transgenic events\r\nwith high transpiration efficiencies (TE) and desirable root and\r\nshoot traits were selected for further evaluation under a series\r\nof environments under glasshouse and confined field trials\r\nto comprehensively study the component traits of drought,\r\nand understand the stress adaptive mechanisms. Relationship\r\nbetween TE and its surrogate traits were explored, besides\r\nstudying the role of biochemical changes in the anti-oxidative\r\nmachinery under water-limiting conditions. Evaluations\r\nwere based on water capture, effective use of captured water\r\nfor producing biomass via photosynthesis, and converting\r\nassimilates into harvestable yield. Accordingly, critical assessment\r\nof drought tolerance and yield under contained field conditions\r\nproved the effectiveness of several events that showed\r\nsubstantial yield improvement under drought stress, without\r\nany accompanying yield penalty under irrigation. Details\r\nof various strategies to develop drought tolerant transgenc\r\nplants, and the results and scope of our own studies will be\r\ndiscussed."^^ . "2017-02" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "K K"^^ . "Sharma"^^ . "K K Sharma"^^ . . "P"^^ . "Bhatnagar-Mathur"^^ . "P Bhatnagar-Mathur"^^ . . "V"^^ . "Vadez"^^ . "V Vadez"^^ . . . . "InterDrought-V"^^ . . . . . "Hyderabad, India"^^ . . . . . . "Genetic engineering approaches for drought tolerance in grain legumes: progress and prospects (PDF)"^^ . . . . . "Abstract_Book_107.pdf"^^ . . . "Genetic engineering approaches for drought tolerance in grain legumes: progress and prospects (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . . "Genetic engineering approaches for drought tolerance in grain legumes: progress and prospects (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "lightbox.jpg"^^ . . . "Genetic engineering approaches for drought tolerance in grain legumes: progress and prospects (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "preview.jpg"^^ . . . "Genetic engineering approaches for drought tolerance in grain legumes: progress and prospects (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "medium.jpg"^^ . . . "Genetic engineering approaches for drought tolerance in grain legumes: progress and prospects (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "small.jpg"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #10257 \n\nGenetic engineering approaches for drought tolerance in grain legumes: progress and prospects\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Genetic Engineering"@en . . . "Climate Change"@en . . . "Legume Crops"@en . .