Coping with drought: stress and adaptive mechanisms, and management through cultural and molecular alternatives in cotton as vital constituents for plant stress resilience and fitness

• Published in: Biological research Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 47 - 17
• Main Authors: Khan, Aziz, Pan, Xudong, Najeeb, Ullah, Tan, Daniel Kean Yuen, Fahad, Shah, Zahoor, Rizwan, Luo, Honghai
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 14.11.2018; BioMed Central; Sociedad de Biología de Chile; BMC
• Subjects: Acclimatization - genetics; Adaptation, Physiological - genetics; Adaptation, Physiological - physiology; Agricultural production; Animal husbandry; Antioxidant; Antioxidants; BIOLOGY; Carbon fixation; Climate change; Cotton; CRISPR; CRISPR/Cas9; Crops; Drought; Drought resistance; Droughts; Environmental factors; Fertilization; Fitness; Flooding; Floods; Gene Expression Regulation, Plant - genetics; Gene Expression Regulation, Plant - physiology; Genes; Genome editing; Genomes; Genomics; Gossypium - genetics; Gossypium - physiology; Greenhouse gases; Growth regulators; Irrigation; Leaf physiology; miRNAs; Mutagenesis; Nuclease; Physiology; Plant breeding; Plants, Genetically Modified - genetics; Plants, Genetically Modified - physiology; Rain; Review; Soil amendment; Stress proteins; Stress, Physiological - genetics; Stress, Physiological - physiology; Water availability; Water stress; Zinc finger proteins; United States > US; Climate change; Leaf physiology; CRISPR/Cas9; miRNAs; Phytohormones; Antioxidant; Drought; Zinc finger nuclease

Increased levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and associated climatic variability is primarily responsible for inducing heat waves, flooding and drought stress. Among these, water scarcity is a major limitation to crop productivity. Water stress can severely reduce crop yield and both the s...