Genetic engineering to improve plant performance under drought: physiological evaluation of achievements, limitations, and possibilities

Engineering the future. Development of transgenic plants with enhanced tolerance to adverse environments

(2013) Matias D. Zurbriggen et al.   Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering Reviews

Breeding crop plants with deep roots: their role in sustainable carbon, nutrient and water sequestration

(2011) D. B. Kell   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Inducible and constitutive expression of HvCBF4 in rice leads to differential gene expression and drought tolerance

(2011) T. Lourenço et al.   BIOLOGIA PLANTARUM

Genetic analysis of abiotic stress tolerance in crops

(2011) Stuart J Roy et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Genome-Wide Survey and Expression Analysis of the Plant-Specific NAC Transcription Factor Family in Soybean During Development and Dehydration Stress

(2011) D. T. Le et al.   DNA RESEARCH

RNAi-mediated disruption of squalene synthase improves drought tolerance and yield in rice

(2011) Lakshmi P. Manavalan et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Protein accumulation in leaves and roots associated with improved drought tolerance in creeping bentgrass expressing an ipt gene for cytokinin synthesis

(2011) E. B. Merewitz et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Drought tolerance through over-expression of the expansin gene TaEXPB23 in transgenic tobacco

(2011) Feng Li et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Enhanced Expression of AtNHX1, in Transgenic Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) Improves Salt and Drought Tolerence

(2011) Muhammad Ahsan Asif et al.   MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY

Rice A20/AN1 zinc-finger containing stress-associated proteins (SAP1/11) and a receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase (OsRLCK253) interact via A20 zinc-finger and confer abiotic stress tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis plants

(2011) Jitender Giri et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Cytokinin-mediated source/sink modifications improve drought tolerance and increase grain yield in rice under water-stress

(2011) Zvi Peleg et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Evidence for a SAL1-PAP Chloroplast Retrograde Pathway That Functions in Drought and High Light Signaling inArabidopsis

(2011) Gonzalo M. Estavillo et al.   PLANT CELL

Overexpression of AtNHX5 improves tolerance to both salt and water stress in rice (Oryza sativa L.)

(2011) Meiru Li et al.   PLANT CELL TISSUE AND ORGAN CULTURE

OsSDIR1 overexpression greatly improves drought tolerance in transgenic rice

(2011) Ting Gao et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Arabidopsis RGLG2, Functioning as a RING E3 Ligase, Interacts with AtERF53 and Negatively Regulates the Plant Drought Stress Response

(2011) M.-C. Cheng et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The Binding Protein BiP Attenuates Stress-Induced Cell Death in Soybean via Modulation of the N-Rich Protein-Mediated Signaling Pathway

(2011) P. A. A. Reis et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Arabidopsis LOS5/ABA3 overexpression in transgenic tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum cv. Xanthi-nc) results in enhanced drought tolerance

(2011) Yuesen Yue et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Overexpression of the phosphatidylinositol synthase gene from Zea mays in tobacco plants alters the membrane lipids composition and improves drought stress tolerance

(2011) Shu-Mei Zhai et al.   PLANTA

Overexpression of HARDY, an AP2/ERF gene from Arabidopsis, improves drought and salt tolerance by reducing transpiration and sodium uptake in transgenic Trifolium alexandrinum L.

(2011) Gaber M. Abogadallah et al.   PLANTA

An Arabidopsis Mitochondrial Uncoupling Protein Confers Tolerance to Drought and Salt Stress in Transgenic Tobacco Plants

(2011) Kevin Begcy et al.   PLoS One

Challenges in breeding for yield increase for drought

(2011) Thomas R. Sinclair   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Genetic Engineering for Modern Agriculture: Challenges and Perspectives

(2010) Ron Mittler et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Breeding for improved water productivity in temperate cereals: phenotyping, quantitative trait loci, markers and the selection environment

(2010) Richard A. Richards et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Chromosome pairing in hybrids between hexaploid bread wheat and tetraploid crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum)

(2010) PREM P. JAUHAR   HEREDITAS

High-throughput shoot imaging to study drought responses

(2010) B. Berger et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Genetic and genomic tools to improve drought tolerance in wheat

(2010) D. Fleury et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Comparison of hormonal responses to heat, drought and combined stress in tobacco plants with elevated proline content

(2010) Jana Dobra et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Characterization of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) of pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L.) and functional validation of selected genes for abiotic stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2010) B. Priyanka et al.   MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS

Root-Specific Reduction of Cytokinin Causes Enhanced Root Growth, Drought Tolerance, and Leaf Mineral Enrichment inArabidopsisand Tobacco

(2010) Tomáš Werner et al.   PLANT CELL

Transgenic tomato cv. Pusa Uphar expressing a bacterial mannitol-1-phosphate dehydrogenase gene confers abiotic stress tolerance

(2010) Neeraj Khare et al.   PLANT CELL TISSUE AND ORGAN CULTURE

The Arabidopsis tandem zinc finger protein AtTZF1 affects ABA- and GA-mediated growth, stress and gene expression responses

(2010) Pei-Chi Lin et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Arabidopsis poly(ADP-ribose) glycohydrolase 1 is required for drought, osmotic and oxidative stress responses

(2010) Guojun Li et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Trehalose and plant stress responses: friend or foe?

(2010) Olivier Fernandez et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Overexpression of the stress-induced OsWRKY08 improves osmotic stress tolerance in Arabidopsis

(2010) Yu Song et al.   Science Bulletin

Ex anteanalysis of the benefits of transgenic drought tolerance research on cereal crops in low-income countries

(2009) Genti Kostandini et al.   AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

Causes of decreased photosynthetic rate and metabolic capacity in water-deficient leaf cells: a critical evaluation of mechanisms and integration of processes

(2009) David W. Lawlor et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Musings about the effects of environment on photosynthesis

(2009) David W. Lawlor   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Inducing drought tolerance in plants: Recent advances

(2009) M. Ashraf   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Review and prospect of transgenic rice research

(2009) Hao Chen et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Trehalose accumulation inAzospirillum brasilenseimproves drought tolerance and biomass in maize plants

(2009) Julieta Rodríguez-Salazar et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Trehalose Metabolism: From Osmoprotection to Signaling

(2009) Gabriel Iturriaga et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Identifying target traits and molecular mechanisms for wheat breeding under a changing climate

(2009) Mikhail A. Semenov et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

TheOsDHODH1Gene is Involved in Salt and Drought Tolerance in Rice

(2009) Wen-Ying Liu et al.   Journal of Integrative Plant Biology

Shoot-Specific Down-Regulation of Protein Farnesyltransferase (α-Subunit) for Yield Protection against Drought in Canola

(2009) Yang Wang et al.   Molecular Plant

Abiotic Stress Tolerance: From Gene Discovery in Model Organisms to Crop Improvement

(2009) Ray Bressan et al.   Molecular Plant

Physiological and proteomic responses of two contrastingPopulus cathayanapopulations to drought stress

(2009) Xiangwen Xiao et al.   PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM

Expression of pigeonpea hybrid-proline-rich protein encoding gene (CcHyPRP) in yeast and Arabidopsis affords multiple abiotic stress tolerance

(2009) Bhyri Priyanka et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Increasing inositol (1,4,5)-trisphosphate metabolism affects drought tolerance, carbohydrate metabolism and phosphate-sensitive biomass increases in tomato

(2009) Mariya Khodakovskaya et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Over-expression of a Populus peroxisomal ascorbate peroxidase (PpAPX) gene in tobacco plants enhances stress tolerance

(2009) Y-J. Li et al.   PLANT BREEDING

Over-expression ofBrassica napusphosphatidylinositol-phospholipase C2 in canola induces significant changes in gene expression and phytohormone distribution patterns, enhances drought tolerance and promotes early flowering and maturation

(2009) FAWZY GEORGES et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

A Raf-Like MAPKKK Gene DSM1 Mediates Drought Resistance through Reactive Oxygen Species Scavenging in Rice

(2009) J. Ning et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Hope for Humpty Dumpty: Systems Biology of Cellular Signaling

(2009) S. M. Assmann   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Increasing Crop Productivity to Meet Global Needs for Feed, Food, and Fuel

(2009) M. D. Edgerton   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

A homolog of human ski-interacting protein in rice positively regulates cell viability and stress tolerance

(2009) X. Hou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Conceptual framework for drought phenotyping during molecular breeding

(2009) Ghasem Hosseini Salekdeh et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Towards a systems-based understanding of plant desiccation tolerance

(2009) John P. Moore et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

When more is better: multigene engineering in plants

(2009) Shaista Naqvi et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Transcription factors and regulation of photosynthetic and related metabolism under environmental stresses

(2008) Nelson J. M. Saibo et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Photosynthesis under drought and salt stress: regulation mechanisms from whole plant to cell

(2008) M. M. Chaves et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Trehalose Metabolism and Signaling

(2008) Matthew J. Paul et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Over-expression of OsDREB genes lead to enhanced drought tolerance in rice

(2008) Jian-Qiang Chen et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS

Enhanced drought tolerance in transgenic Leymus chinensis plants with constitutively expressed wheat TaLEA 3

(2008) Lijuan Wang et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS

Integration of leaf metabolism and physiology by the trehalose pathway

(2008) M. Paul et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Breeding for Yield Potential and Stress Adaptation in Cereals

(2008) José Luis Araus et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN PLANT SCIENCES

Phenotypic and genotypic analysis of drought-resistance traits for development of rice cultivars adapted to rainfed environments

(2008) Akihiko Kamoshita et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Abiotic stress and ABA-inducible Group 4 LEA from Brassica napus plays a key role in salt and drought tolerance

(2008) Monika Dalal et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

The ER luminal binding protein (BiP) mediates an increase in drought tolerance in soybean and delays drought-induced leaf senescence in soybean and tobacco

(2008) Maria Anete S. Valente et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Expression of the Vicia faba VfPIP1 gene in Arabidopsis thaliana plants improves their drought resistance

(2008) Xiang-Huan Cui et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH

Evaluation of Seven Function-Known Candidate Genes for their Effects on Improving Drought Resistance of Transgenic Rice under Field Conditions

(2008) Ben-Ze Xiao et al.   Molecular Plant

Soybean WRKY-type transcription factor genes, GmWRKY13, GmWRKY21, and GmWRKY54, confer differential tolerance to abiotic stresses in transgenic Arabidopsis plants

(2008) Qi-Yun Zhou et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Transgenic Arabidopsis Plants Expressing the Type 1 Inositol 5-Phosphatase Exhibit Increased Drought Tolerance and Altered Abscisic Acid Signaling

(2008) I. Y. Perera et al.   PLANT CELL

Plastid-expressed choline monooxygenase gene improves salt and drought tolerance through accumulation of glycine betaine in tobacco

(2008) Jiang Zhang et al.   PLANT CELL REPORTS

Superoxide dismutase and glutathione reductase overexpression in wheat protoplast: photooxidative stress tolerance and changes in cellular redox state

(2008) Mariana Melchiorre et al.   PLANT GROWTH REGULATION

A rapid, non-invasive procedure for quantitative assessment of drought survival using chlorophyll fluorescence

(2008) Nick S Woo et al.   Plant Methods

Expression profiling of rice cultivars differing in their tolerance to long-term drought stress

(2008) Thomas Degenkolbe et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Overexpression of a rice OsDREB1F gene increases salt, drought, and low temperature tolerance in both Arabidopsis and rice

(2008) Qiuyun Wang et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Characterization of OsbZIP23 as a Key Player of the Basic Leucine Zipper Transcription Factor Family for Conferring Abscisic Acid Sensitivity and Salinity and Drought Tolerance in Rice

(2008) Y. Xiang et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Bacterial RNA Chaperones Confer Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants and Improved Grain Yield in Maize under Water-Limited Conditions

(2008) P. Castiglioni et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

LEA 4 group genes from the resurrection plant Boea hygrometrica confer dehydration tolerance in transgenic tobacco

(2008) Xia Liu et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Overexpression of the Arabidopsis H+-PPase enhanced resistance to salt and drought stress in transgenic alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.)

(2008) Ai-Ke Bao et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Identification of OsbZIP72 as a positive regulator of ABA response and drought tolerance in rice

(2008) Guojun Lu et al.   PLANTA

Enhanced expression of phospholipase C 1 (ZmPLC1) improves drought tolerance in transgenic maize

(2008) Chun-Rong Wang et al.   PLANTA

Quantitative trait loci for carbon isotope discrimination are repeatable across environments and wheat mapping populations

(2008) G. J. Rebetzke et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Glycinebetaine: an effective protectant against abiotic stress in plants

(2008) Tony H.H. Chen et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Breeding for abiotic stresses for sustainable agriculture

(2007) J.R Witcombe et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The role of biotechnology for agricultural sustainability in Africa

(2007) J. A Thomson   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES