Genetic Diversity for Drought Resistance in Wheat

ISBN-13: 9783659507731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 92 str.

Afridi Anila;Ullah Inam;Ikram Muhammad

Opis

The genus Triticum includes bread (Triticum aestivum) and durum wheat (Triticum durum) and constitutes a major source for human food consumption. Drought is currently the leading threat on worlds food supply, limiting crop yield, and is complicated since drought tolerance is a quantitative trait with a complex phenotype affected by the plants developmental stage. Drought tolerance is crucial to stabilize and increase food production since domestication has limited the genetic diversity of crops including wild wheat, leading to cultivated species, adapted to artificial environments, and lost tolerance to drought stress.

O autorze

Anila Afrida completed her MPhil in Genetics from Hazara University, Pakistan in 2012.Currently the author doing PhD in Molecular Genetics of wheat from Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan.