A Review of Drought Tolerance in Safflower

Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) is a multipurpose crop that can grow in arid and semi-arid environments because of its tolerance to drought stress, salinity, lower higher temperatures. Despite safflower’s characteristic, stress negatively impact growth development. Drought reduces plant height biomass, leaf chlorophyll content area, photosynthesis rate, yield components, oil yield, fatty acid composition safflower. Increased root shoot ratio the are some adaption mechanisms Recent studies have reported biochemical molecular safflower, but they still initial stages. Understanding these help management breeding cultivars with enhanced tolerance. This review compiles literature on safflower approaches proposed enhance better under water stress.