The role of drought-induced proteins in regulating drought tolerance in cereals

Publication date: 04/12/2023
Extent: 30 pages

Contributions by: Mitiku A. Mengistu and John C. Cushman, University of Nevada – Reno, USA

Chapter synopsis:

Cereals provide a majority of caloric intake of the human population on earth. Projected population growth will require future increases in global grain production in the coming decades. However, many studies have demonstrated that increasing global warming trends will lead to hotter and drier climates in many areas of the earth’s surface resulting in declines in regional and global cereal production in the future. However, cereals are well adapted to environmental conditions and have developed many drought-adaptive strategies to resist or tolerate water-deficit stress. Among other strategies, such adaptations can be monitored by evaluating changes in protein expression patterns. Large-scale proteomic studies have been aided in recent years by improved availability of genomic, proteomic, and transcriptomic sequence information for most major cereal crops. This chapter will summarize advances made in transgenic engineering or genome editing approaches.

DOI: 10.19103/AS.2022.0109.04