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Sorghum: Role and Responses Under Abiotic Stress

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Sustainable Remedies for Abiotic Stress in Cereals

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Sorghum is an important staple crop that can also be used as an alternative source of energy, human food, animal feed, and other industrial purposes throughout the world. Despite the fact that sorghum is a tolerant crop, extreme environmental conditions and poor agriculture systems reduced the nutritional quality and productivity of the crop. Understanding the effects of stress and plant response is essential for developing more stress-tolerant plants with higher quality. As sorghum has a small genome size, this makes it a model species for genetic and genomic studies to develop tolerant species. In this chapter, we will discuss the use of marker-assisted breeding and other advanced molecular studies to improve sorghum tolerance to drought, salinity, cold, heavy metal stress, etc. The negative impact of abiotic stress on sorghum growth and development, such as osmotic potential, which impedes germination and embryonic structures, and photosynthetic rates, manifested in the form of significant reductions in grain yield and quality will also be discussed.

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Kamal, A., Ahmad, F. (2022). Sorghum: Role and Responses Under Abiotic Stress. In: Abdel Latef, A.A.H. (eds) Sustainable Remedies for Abiotic Stress in Cereals. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5121-3_5

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