Emerging Technologies and Management of Crop Stress Tolerance

Chapter 14

Integrating Physiological and Genetic Approaches for Improving Drought Tolerance in Crops

Ahmad Ali, Zeshan Ali, Umar M. Quraishi, Alvina Gul Kazi, Riffat N. Malik, Hassan Sher and Abdul Mujeeb-Kazi

The linked projections of the global population standing in 2050 of approximately 9.2 billion and the balanced annual increase in crop yields to ensure food security, with wheat considered as its major conduit have necessitated taking a careful multidisciplinary integrated look at what looms ahead. Keeping wheat as the major crop target, its outputs under irrigated and rain-fed conditions have become significant to address factors that pave the way for yield maximization both under plant improvement and plant management scenarios. Optimum ...