QTL Analysis for Drought Tolerance in Wheat: Present Status and Future Possibilities

By Pankaj Kumar Gupta, H. Balyan, Vijay Gahlaut. 2017

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In recent years, with climate change, drought stress has been witnessed in many parts of the world. In many irrigated regions also, shortage of water supply allows only limited irrigation. These conditions have an adverse effect on the productivity of many crops including cereals such as wheat. Therefore, genetics of drought/water stress tolerance in different crops has become a priority area of research. This research mainly involves use of quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis (involving both interval mapping and association mapping) for traits that are related to water-use efficiency. In this article, we briefly review the available literature on QTL analyses in wheat for traits, which respond to drought/water stress. The outlook for future research in this area and the possible approaches for utilizing the available information on genetics of drought tolerance for wheat breeding are also discussed.

Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Genetics, Plant Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Chilling and Drought Stresses in Crop Plants: Implications, Cross Talk, and Potential Management Opportunities (2018, background): “A large number of QTLs have already been identified for several drought tolerance traits, nevertheless, epiQTLs and Epistatic QTLs discovered in future can be used for molecular breeding (Gupta et al., 2017).”
• Cell Membrane Stability and Association Mapping for Drought and Heat Tolerance in a Worldwide Wheat Collection (2017, background): “Marker-assisted selection (MAS) uses genetic markers to select for desirable plants, where success relies on driving real and accurate marker-trait associations using bi-parental QTL mapping or association mapping (AM) [43].”