%0 Book Section
%A Vadez, V
%A Kholova, J
%A Choudhary, S
%A Paul, Z
%A Terrier, M
%A Krishnamurthy, L
%A Ratna Kumar, p
%A Turner, N C
%B Crop Adaptation to Climate Change
%D 2011
%E Yadav, S S
%E Redden, R
%E Hatfield, J L
%E Lotze-Campen, H
%E Hall, A J
%F icrisat:1264
%I Wiley
%T Responses to Increased Moisture Stress and  Extremes: Whole Plant Response to Drought  under Climate Change
%U http://oar.icrisat.org/1264/
%X In this chapter, we tackle the physiology of  plant water use from the angle of how this will  be modified in a context of a changing climate.  Two recent reviews cover a number of innovative  aspects to drought research, in particular in relation  to research on roots, and advocate the need  to look at the soil–root–shoot–atmosphere water  management in a comprehensive and dynamic  manner (Vadez et al. 2007, 2008). In the present  chapter, we revisit some of these aspects from  the perspective of changing climatic conditions  and explore the major issues that climate change will bring about, and how it will affect crop  production and in particular under water-limited  conditions. These issues can be broadly grouped  into two categories: (1) thermodynamic aspects  of the soil–plant–atmosphere water relations and  (2) growth and development aspects.