Drought tolerance

Overexpression of the activated form of the AtAREB1 gene (AtAREB1ΔQT) improves soybean responses to water deficit

J. P. Leite, Barbosa, E. G. G., Marin, S. R. R., Marinho, J. P., Carvalho, J. F. C., Pagliarini, R. F., Cruz, A. S., Oliveira, M. C. N., Farias, J. R. B., Neumaier, N., Guimarães, F. C. M., Yoshida, T., Kanamori, N., Fujita, Y., Nakashima, K., Shinozaki, K. Y., Desidério, J. A., and Nepomuceno, A. L., “Overexpression of the activated form of the AtAREB1 gene (AtAREB1ΔQT) improves soybean responses to water deficit”, vol. 13, pp. 6272-6286, 2014.

Abscisic acid-responsive element binding protein (AREB1) is a basic domain/leucine zipper transcription factor that binds to the abscisic acid (ABA)-responsive element motif in the promoter region of ABA-inducible genes. Because AREB1 is not sufficient to direct the expression of downstream genes under non-stress conditions, an activated form of AREB1 (AREB1ΔQT) was created. Several reports claim that plants overexpressing AREB1 or AREB1ΔQT show improved drought tolerance.

Bulked segregant analysis for relative water content to detect quantitative trait loci in wheat under drought stress

M. R. Naroui Rad, M. Kadir, A., Rafii, M. Y., Jaafar, H. Z. E., and Naghavi, M. R., “Bulked segregant analysis for relative water content to detect quantitative trait loci in wheat under drought stress”, vol. 11, pp. 3882-3888, 2012.

This study was carried out to evaluate the genetic effect of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) conferring drought tolerance in wheat. A population of 120 F2 individuals from the cross between the drought-tolerant S-78-11 and drought-sensitive Tajan cultivars were analyzed for their segregation under drought stress conditions. The relative water content under drought stress conditions exhibited continuous variation, indicating the minor gene effects on the trait. Single-marker analysis (SMA) was carried out to detect the main QTL association with drought tolerance.

Molecular mapping of quantitative trait loci for drought tolerance in maize plants

H. Rahman, Pekic, S., Lazic-Jancic, V., Quarrie, S. A., Shah, S. M. A., Pervez, A., and Shah, M. M., “Molecular mapping of quantitative trait loci for drought tolerance in maize plants”, vol. 10, pp. 889-901, 2011.

Drought tolerance is one of the most important but complex traits of crops. We looked for quantitative trait loci (QTLs) that affect drought tolerance in maize. Two maize inbreds and their advanced lines were evaluated for drought-related traits. A genetic linkage map developed using RFLP markers was used to identify QTLs associated with drought-related traits. Twenty-two QTLs were detected, with a minimum of one and a maximum of nine for drought-related traits. A single-QTL was detected for sugar concentration accounting for about 52.2% of the phenotypic variation on chromosome 6.

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