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Abiotic Stress Tolerant Crops: Genes, Pathways and Bottlenecks

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Abbreviations

Abiotic stress:

Any negative impact on a living organism caused by a nonliving factor in the environment in which the organism is present.

Biological modeling:

In silico description of a biological process to generate predictions for experimental validation.

Conventional breeding:

Development of new plant varieties by selection after natural reproduction.

Epigenetics:

The study of inherited changes in phenotype or gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in the DNA sequence.

Genetic engineering:

Development of a new plant variety through genetic modification by using recombinant DNA technology.

Phenotype:

Observable trait or characteristic (i.e., appearance) of an organism in a specific environment.

Phenome:

Collection of phenotypes of an organism in all possible environments.

Phenotyping:

Process of studying the phenotype.

Plant productivity:

Ability of a plant to produce a certain amount of biomass, either as green tissue and/or as seeds (yield).

Quantitative trait locus (QTL):

Stretches of DNA that are closely linked to the genes that underlie the trait in question.

Regulon biotechnology:

Genetic engineering by targeting genes encoding proteins with regulatory function, often transcription factors.

Trait:

Characteristic of an object.

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Vandenbroucke, K., Metzlaff, M. (2013). Abiotic Stress Tolerant Crops: Genes, Pathways and Bottlenecks. In: Christou, P., Savin, R., Costa-Pierce, B.A., Misztal, I., Whitelaw, C.B.A. (eds) Sustainable Food Production. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5797-8_415

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