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Agronomic Crop Responses and Tolerance to Drought Stress

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Drought (water stress) is one of the most important stresses that occurs widely in agricultural fields and can affect different aspects of crop growth, development, and metabolism. There are several reasons of drought stress in agriculture fields, including low rainfall or irrigation, high and low temperature, high intensity of light, high EC (electrical conductivity) due to salinity and fertilizer misapplication, etc. Plant water potential and turgor decline in dehydration condition; therefore, plant cells could not do normal functions and inducing all drought stress aspects in plants. In addition, it can negatively affect quantity and quality of growth and yield in crops. Plants are sessile organisms and must tolerate environmental stresses; hence, they have developed various mechanisms for resistance to stresses such as drought stress. Moreover, as plants are multicellular organisms, their responses to environmental stresses such as drought are complex. Generally, plant resistance to environmental stress is divided into two main strategies: stress avoidance and stress tolerance. Besides tolerance, avoidance is one of the common drought resistance mechanisms in annual plants. Escape from stress conditions is the strategy for plant growth under drought condition that is less important in agronomic plants. The alteration in resistance capacity of crops’ seeds and young seedlings by priming methods, production of tolerant crops by traditional breeding methods, and the generation of transgenic plants by gene manipulation are useful procedures to minimize the negative effects of drought on agronomic products. In addition, several strategies for drought management in agricultural fields on multiple levels can be effective.

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Abbreviations

5-HTP:

5-hydroxy-L-tryptophan

ABA:

abscisic acid

AFLP:

amplified fragment length polymorphism

ALA:

5-aminolevulinic acid

AM:

arbuscular mycorhizal fungi

APX:

ascorbate peroxidase

BABA:

β-aminobutyric acid

BR:

brassinosteroid

CAT:

catalase

CPK:

Ca2+-dependent protein kinase

EC:

electrical conductivity

ERF:

ethylene response factors

GABA:

γ- aminobutyric acid

Gas:

Gibberellins

GB:

glycine betaine

GR:

glutathione reductase

GSH:

glutathione

H2O2:

hydrogen peroxide

IAA:

indole-3- acetic acid

JA:

jasmonic acid

L-DOPA:

L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine

LEA:

late embryogenesis abundant

LMW:

low molecular weight

MGDG:

monogalactosyldiacylglycerol

O2•−:

superoxide radical

OH:

hydroxyl radical

P5CR:

pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase

PEG:

polyethylene glycol

PM-ATPase:

plasma membrane ATPase

POD:

peroxidase

PP2Cs:

protein phosphatase 2Cs

QTL:

quantitative trait loci

RAPDs:

random amplified polymorphic DNA

RCS:

reactive carbonyl species

RFLPs:

restriction fragment length polymorphisms

RNS:

reactive nitrogen species

RO:

alkoxy radicals

ROS:

reactive oxygen species

RSS:

reactive sulfur species

RuBisCO:

ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase

RWC:

relative water content

SA:

salicylic acid

SCARs:

sequence characteristic amplified regions

SnRK2s:

SNF1-related protein kinase 2s

SOD:

superoxide dismutase

SSRs:

simple sequence repeats

TF:

transcription factors

VOCs:

volatile organic compounds

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