Improving drought tolerance in rice: Ensuring food security through multi‐dimensional approaches

Drought has been highly prevalent around the world especially in Sub‐Saharan Africa and South‐East Asian countries. Consistent climatic instabilities and unpredictable rainfall patterns are further worsening the situation. Rice is a C3 staple cereal and an important food crop for the majority of the...

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Published in:Physiologia plantarum 2021-06, Vol.172 (2), p.645-668
Main Authors: Khan, M. Iqbal R., Palakolanu, Sudhakar R., Chopra, Priyanka, Rajurkar, Ashish B., Gupta, Ravi, Iqbal, Noushina, Maheshwari, Chirag
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acclimation
Acclimatization
Adaptation
Drought
Drought resistance
drought tolerance
Food
food crops
Food security
genetically modified organisms
grain quality
Rain
Rainfall
Rice
Sub-Saharan Africa
water stress
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