http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/11756 2021-03-22T09:50:37Z info:eu-repo/semantics/descriptiveMetadata http://oar.icrisat.org/11756/ Improving drought tolerance in rice: Ensuring food security through multi‐dimensional approaches Khan, M I R Palakolanu, S R Chopra, P Rajurkar, A B Gupta, R Iqbal, N Maheshwari, C Rice Drought Food Security Drought has been highly prevalent around the world especially in Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asian countries. Consistent climatic instabilities and unpredictable rainfall patterns are further worsening the situation. Rice is a C 3 staple cereal and an important food crop for the majority of the world's population and drought stress is one of the major growth retarding threats for rice that slashes down grain quality and yield. Drought deteriorates rice productivity and induces various acclimation responses that aids in stress mitigation. However, the complexity of traits associated with drought tolerance has made the understanding of drought stress-induced responses in rice a challenging process. An integrative understanding based on physi- ological adaptations, omics, transgenic and molecular breeding approaches succes- sively backed up to developing drought stress-tolerant rice. The review represents a step forward to develop drought-resilient rice plants by exploiting the knowledge that collaborates with omics-based developments with integrative efforts to ensure the compilation of all the possible strategies undertaken to develop drought stress- tolerant rice. Wiley 2020-09 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://oar.icrisat.org/11756/1/ppl.13223.pdf Khan, M I R and Palakolanu, S R and Chopra, P and Rajurkar, A B and Gupta, R and Iqbal, N and Maheshwari, C (2020) Improving drought tolerance in rice: Ensuring food security through multi‐dimensional approaches. Physiologia Plantarum (TSI). pp. 1-24. ISSN 0031-9317 https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.13223 doi:10.1111/ppl.13223 info:eu-repo/semantics/objectFile info:eu-repo/semantics/humanStartPage