Understanding Molecular Basis of Salinity Tolerance in Ragi and Rice

ISBN-13: 9783659151811 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 76 str.

Kishor Shedage; M. Raveendran; D. Vijayalakshmi

Opis

Rice is the staple food for more than half of the worlds population. Abiotic stresses such as drought and salinity limit rice production under rainfed environments, which comprise about 45 per cent of the global rice area. Increasing salinization of agricultural land causes toxic effects in plant development, primarily at the seedling level. Hence developing suitable rice genotypes for salinity prone areas will help us to stabilize the yield under the rainfed / water limited environments. Thus, there is a need for identifying, cloning and validating functional genes and transcriptional factors from our local plant species adapted to various biotic and abiotic stresses finger millet this will help us to have improved understanding of adaptive and general protective mechanisms conferring enhanced salt tolerance to plants.

O autorze

Shedage Kishor Ashok is doing his Ph.d in Molecular Cell Physiology Laboratory, Ehime University, Japan. He Has finished his M.Sc from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India in 2009.