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Drought causes important decline in crop yield, negatively impacting plant growth, physiology, and reproduction. Plants have adopted a wide range of strategies to confront the negative effects of drought, including… Click to show full abstract
Drought causes important decline in crop yield, negatively impacting plant growth, physiology, and reproduction. Plants have adopted a wide range of strategies to confront the negative effects of drought, including increasing water uptake by optimizing the root system, closing stomata to limit the water loss caused by transpiration, accumulating osmoprotectants or producing the hormone abscisic acid (ABA). This intricate scenario makes drought resistance a highly complex trait, with polygenic nature, low heritability, and vastly influenced by genotype-environment interactions (Fang and Xiong 2014).
Journal Title: Plant Biotechnology Journal
Year Published: 2019
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