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An Integrated Approach for Drought Tolerance Improvement in Rice

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Drought is a major threat to agriculture globally and improving crop yield under drought conditions is a major challenge of plant breeding. Many QTLs have been identified for drought stress response, and researchers are striving hard to comprehend and dissect plant tolerance mechanisms related to drought stress. Unravelling the biochemical regulation of drought tolerance and molecular breeding and transgenic approaches can help us manage drought stress in plants. Recent advances achieved regarding genomic tools and genetic techniques in addition to precise phenotyping and advanced breeding methodologies will enable exhibiting metabolic pathways and candidate genes underlying drought tolerance in rice. Taken altogether, new horizons have been opened for the breeders to utilize markers for QTLs, signaling cascade, hormonal cross talk, or gene transformation in plants to develop a drought resistant genotype.

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  2. College of Agriculture, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Bahadur Sub-Campus, Layyah, Pakistan

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  3. Department of Botany, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

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    Qasim Ali

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Rehman, A., Almas, H.I., Akbar, F., Ali, Q., Du, X. (2020). An Integrated Approach for Drought Tolerance Improvement in Rice. In: Roychoudhury, A. (eds) Rice Research for Quality Improvement: Genomics and Genetic Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4120-9_12

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