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ReviewFunctional & integrative genomics2024

Drought-tolerant wheat for enhancing global food security.

Abhishek Bohra, Mukesh Choudhary, Dion Bennett, Rohit Joshi, Reyazul Rouf Mir, Rajeev K Varshney

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Review in Functional & integrative genomics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Wheat Drought Management: A Broader Prospect.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Abhishek BohraICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research (IIPR), Kanpur, 208024, India. Abhishek.Bohra@icar.gov.in.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4569-8900
Mukesh ChoudharyICAR-Indian Institute of Maize Research, PAU campus, Ludhiana, 141001, India.
Dion BennettAustralian Grain technologies (AGT), Northam, WA, 6401, Australia.
Rohit JoshiCSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, 176061, India.
Reyazul Rouf MirDivision of Genetics & Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, SKUAST, Srinagar, 190025, Shalimar, India.
Rajeev K VarshneyState Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, Centre for Crop and Food Innovation, Food Futures Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, 6150, Australia. Rajeev.Varshney@murdoch.edu.au.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Wheat is among the most produced grain crops of the world and alone provides a fifth of the world's calories and protein. Wheat has played a key role in food security since the crop served as a Neolithic founder crop for the establishment of world agriculture. Projections showing a decline in global wheat yields in changing climates imply that food security targets could be jeopardized. Increased frequency and intensity of drought occurrence is evident in major wheat-producing regions worldwide, and notably, the wheat-producing area under drought is projected to swell globally by 60% by the end of the 21st century. Wheat yields are significantly reduced due to changes in plant morphological, physiological, biochemical, and molecular activities in response to drought stress. Advances in wheat genetics, multi-omics technologies and plant phenotyping have enhanced the understanding of crop responses to drought conditions. Research has elucidated key genomic regions, candidate genes, signalling molecules and associated networks that orchestrate tolerance mechanisms under drought stress. Robust and low-cost selection tools are now available in wheat for screening genetic variations for drought tolerance traits. New breeding techniques and selection tools open a unique opportunity to tailor future wheat crop with optimal trait combinations that help withstand extreme drought. Adoption of the new wheat varieties will increase crop diversity in rain-fed agriculture and ensure sustainable improvements in crop yields to safeguard the world's food security in drier environments.

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DroughtsFood SecurityTriticumCrops, AgriculturalPlant BreedingStress, PhysiologicalBreedingDroughtGenesGenomeResponseSelectionWheat

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