As one of the three most important cereal species, maize is grown in a range of environments, and is a basic food grain in many areas and several cultures. This paper examines water use efficiency (WUE) in maize through a review of literatures on the topic. It then examines strategies to improve WUE, through plant breeding, biotechnology and changes to agronomic practice. In breeding for improv...

A sharp decline in the availability of arable land and sufficient supply of irrigation water along with a continuous steep increase in food demands have exerted a pressure on farmers to produce more with fewer resources. A viable solution to release this pressure is to speed up the plant breeding process by employing biotechnology in breeding programs. The majority of biotechnological applicati...

Mi-Kyeong Kim1, Hae-Ryun Kwak1, Su-Heon Lee1, Jeong-Soo Kim1, Kook-Hyung Kim2, ByeongJin Cha3* and Hong-Soo Choi1* 1Crop Protection Division, National Academy of Agricultural Science, Suwon 441-707, Korea 2Department of Agricultural Biotechnology and Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul 151921, Korea 3Department of Plant Medicine, Chungbuk National University,...

Kumar U, Joshi AK, Kumar S, Chand R and Röder MS Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005 India; Department of Biotechnology, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut 250110, India; Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu Univers...

Fatemeh Zare Shahneh*, Samira Valiyari , Abbas Azadmehr, Reza Hajiaghaee, Ali Bandehagh, Behzad Baradaran Immunology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran Department of Medical Biotechnology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran Department of Immunology, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran Pharmacognosy and Pharmaceutics, Department of Medicinal...

1 Plant Biotechnology Lab, Division of Molecular Biology, IPICYT, 78216 San Luis Potośı, SLP, Mexico 2 Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potośı, 78290 San Luis Potośı, SLP, Mexico 3 National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Center of Crop Molecular Breeding, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China 4 Stress Physiology & Molecular Biology Lab...

ized research and development journals, and provide relevant information proactively by the societies, such as Potato Research by the European Association for Potato Research (EAPR, www.eapr.net) under EUCARPIA and the American Journal of Potato Research by the Potato Association of America (PAA, http://potatoassociation.org), however, a wide range of plant science audiences would be interested...

Biotechnology can offer useful tools to complement conventional breeding programs. The techniques of in vitro selection, that exploit phenomenon, called somaclonal variation, by screening cell cultures for resistance to herbicides, different types of stress or diseases, already helped to obtain tolerant lines of flax (Linum usitatissimum), which were used in further commercial breeding programs...