Drought resistance, water-use efficiency, and yield potential-are they compatible, dissonant, or mutually exclusive?

By A. Blum. 2005

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Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Plant Science

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Physiological tests as predictive appreciation for drought tolerance in durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) (2008, background): “The physiological and morphological responses of cereals to water stress have been studied extensively (Boyer & Westgate, 2004; Blum, 2005).”
Abiotic stresses, constraints and improvement strategies in chickpea (2014, background): “Drought resistance and its components are almost constantly being redefined (Blum 2005).”
Chilling and Drought Stresses in Crop Plants: Implications, Cross Talk, and Potential Management Opportunities (2018, background): “Greater accumulation of osmolytes is generally linked with drought tolerance (Blum, 2005) because these facilitate in maintenance of leaf turgor to improve conductance of stomata for efficient CO2 intake (Kiani et al., 2007), and promote the water uptake ability of roots (Chimenti et al., 2006).”
Morpho-physiological traits associated with terminal drought-stress tolerance in triticale and wheat. (2011, background): “Plants are developmentally and physiologically designed by evolution to reduce water use (WU) under drought stress (Blum, 2005).”
Identification of microsatellite markers linked with yield components under drought stress at terminal growth stages in durum wheat (2010, background): “It has been demonstrated that only under strong environmental stresses do genotypes with high yield potential produce less than cultivars which have lower yield potentials but which are better adapted to stress (Blum 2005).”
Impact of drought stress on growth and quality of miscanthus for biofuel production (2017, background): “Global Change Biology Bioenergy Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 9, 770–782 plants than for large plants; small plants need less water and are less likely to lose water due to a proportionally small leaf surface area (Blum, 2005).”
Global synthesis of drought effects on cereal, legume, tuber and root crops production: A review (2017, background): “Breeding for traits such as small plants, moderate growth, and short growth duration might further improve positive relationship between WUE and yield for crops grown using stored soil moisture in the dryland condition (Blum, 2005).”
Development and Utilization of Sorghum as a Bioenergy Crop (2008, background): “Other drought tolerance adaptations, like the accumulation of osmolites to decrease osmotic potential and presence osmoprotectants can increase the chances of plant survival in extreme conditions, but have not shown practical increase of yield under field experiments (Serraj and Sinclair 2002; Blum ”
Genotype × environment interaction and genetic improvement for yield and yield stability of rainfed durum wheat in Iran (2012, positive): “This can be achieved by increasing potential yield, which could concomitantly increase yield under stress at least when the stress is mild or moderate (Blum 2005; Slafer and Araus 2007), or by improving yield stability (Pswarayi et al.”
Irrigation offsets wheat yield reductions from warming temperatures (2017, result): “This is consistent with previous research that shows that cultivars within crop species have different responses to heat and water-deficit stress [34].”