<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "Water: the most important ‘molecular’ component of water\r\nstress tolerance research"^^ . "Water deficit is the main yield-limiting factor across the Asian and African semiarid tropics and a basic\r\nconsideration when developing crop cultivars for water-limited conditions is to ensure that crop water demand matches\r\nseason water supply. Conventional breeding has contributed to the development of varieties that are better adapted to\r\nwater stress, such as early maturing cultivars that match water supply and demand and then escape terminal water stress.\r\nHowever, an optimisation of this match is possible. Also, further progress in breeding varieties that cope with water stress is\r\nhampered by the typically large genotype environment interactions in most field studies. Therefore, a more comprehensive\r\napproach is required to revitalise the development of materials that are adapted to water stress. In the past two decades,\r\ntransgenic and candidate gene approaches have been proposed for improving crop productivity under water stress, but\r\nhave had limited real success. The major drawback of these approaches has been their failure to consider realistic water\r\nlimitations and their link to yield when designing biotechnological experiments. Although the genes are many, the plant\r\ntraits contributing to crop adaptation to water limitation are few and revolve around the critical need to match water supply\r\nand demand. We focus here on the genetic aspects of this, although we acknowledge that crop management options also\r\nhave a role to play. These traits are related in part to increased, better or more conservative uses of soil water. However, the\r\ntraits themselves are highly dynamic during crop development: they interact with each other and with the environment.\r\nHence, success in breeding cultivars that are more resilient under water stress requires an understanding of plant traits\r\naffecting yield under water deficit as well as an understanding of their mutual and environmental interactions. Given that\r\nthe phenotypic evaluation of germplasm/breeding material is limited by the number of locations and years of testing, crop\r\nsimulation modelling then becomes a powerful tool for navigating the complexity of biological systems, for predicting the\r\neffects on yield and for determining the probability of success of specific traits or trait combinations across water stress\r\nscenarios."^^ . "2013" . . "40" . "12" . . "CSIRO Publishing"^^ . . . "Functional Plant Biology"^^ . . . "14454408" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "J"^^ . "Kholova"^^ . "J Kholova"^^ . . "N"^^ . "Nouhoun BelkoA,"^^ . "N Nouhoun BelkoA,"^^ . . "V"^^ . "Vadez"^^ . "V Vadez"^^ . . "M"^^ . "Zaman-Allah"^^ . "M Zaman-Allah"^^ . . . . . . "Water: the most important ‘molecular’ component of water\r\nstress tolerance research (PDF)"^^ . . . . . "Water: the most important ‘molecular’ component of water\r\nstress tolerance research (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "Water: the most important ‘molecular’ component of water\r\nstress tolerance research (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "Water: the most important ‘molecular’ component of water\r\nstress tolerance research (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "Water: the most important ‘molecular’ component of water\r\nstress tolerance research (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "Water: the most important ‘molecular’ component of water\r\nstress tolerance research (Other)"^^ . . . . . "HTML Summary of #7705 \n\nWater: the most important ‘molecular’ component of water \nstress tolerance research\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Genetics and Genomics"@en . .