title: Emerging tools, concepts and ideas to track the modulator genes underlying plant drought adaptive traits: An overview.
abstract: Crop vulnerability to multiple abiotic stresses is increasing at an alarming rate in the current global climate change scenario, especially drought. Crop improvement for adaptive adjustments to accomplish stress tolerance requires a comprehensive understanding of the key contributory processes. This requires the identification and careful analysis of the critical morpho-physiological plant attributes and their genetic control. In this review we try to discuss the crucial traits underlying drought tolerance and the various modes followed to understand their molecular level regulation. Plant stress biology is progressing into new dimensions and a conscious attempt has been made to traverse through the various approaches and checkpoints that would be relevant to tackle drought stress limitations for sustainable crop production.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Crop Physiology ; University of Agricultural Sciences; GKVK ; Bangalore , India.
authors.forename: Parvathi
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ms
authors.affiliation: a Department of Crop Physiology ; University of Agricultural Sciences; GKVK ; Bangalore , India.
authors.forename: Karaba N
authors.initials: KN
authors.lastname: Nataraja
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological / Q000235:genetics*; D055864:Droughts; D017343:Genes, Plant; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics*; D019655:Quantitative Trait, Heritable; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000235:genetics*
keywords: cellular tolerance; drought; gene regulation; omics; stress gene discovery