Improving drought tolerance in rice: Ensuring food security through multi‐dimensional approaches

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

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Research Program : Genetic Gains
CRP:	UNSPECIFIED
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Drought Tolerance, Food Security, Rice
Subjects:	Others > Rice Others > Drought Others > Food Security
Depositing User:	Mr Arun S
Date Deposited:	22 Mar 2021 09:50
Last Modified:	22 Mar 2021 09:50
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/11756
Official URL:	https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.13223
Projects:	UNSPECIFIED
Funders:	UNSPECIFIED
Acknowledgement:	The authors acknowledge all the contributors in the field of droughtrice and apologies if any work is/are not cited because of the space limitation. In addition, M. Iqbal R. Khan acknowledges the financial support by UGC-start-up grant (No. F. 30-482/2019 [BSR]). Sudhakar R. Palakolanu acknowledges the financial support by SERB under Extramural Research (EMR) Grant No. EMR/20l6/006726.
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