Breeding crops that do better under water stress

Moisture stress studies in different chickpea types
J. Kumar¹, N. Dhiman², S.S. Yadav¹, Jens Berger³, Neil C. Turner^3,4 and Dhirendra Singh²

Two New Food Hull-Less Barley Varieties For Rainfed In Egypt
A.A. EL-Sayed¹, R.A. Abo El-Enein¹ , A.S. El-Gamal¹, A.A. El-Sherbiny¹, M.A. El-Moselhy¹, M.A. Megahed¹, A.A. El-Hag¹, A.M.O. El-Bawab¹, M.T. Abdelhamid¹, K.A. Amer¹, R.A. Rizk², S. Grando³, M.A. Said¹, H.A. Ashmawy¹, S.I. Abaas¹, M.Z. Shendy¹and M.I El-Hawary¹

Amalgamation of drought adaptation and high productivity in arid zone pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum)
O.P. Yadav¹, Fran R. Bidinger², C.T. Hash² and Rachid Serraj²

Screening for late season drought tolerance in wheat genotypes grown in Iran
Goodarz Najafian¹, Akbar Ghandi² and Hassan Abdi³

Improving water use efficiency and drought tolerance in groundnut by trait based breeding programmes in India
M.S. Basu¹ and P. C. Nautiyal²

Enhancing Water Productivity in Irrigated Rice
Parminder Virk¹, Sant S. Virmani², V. Lopena and R. Cabangon

Adaptation of photosynthetic components of chickpea to water stress
P.S. Basu, Masood Ali and S.K. Chaturvedi

Wild Helianthus anomalus and H. deserticola from the Desert Southwest USA: a Potential Source of Stress Genes for Cultivated Sunflower
Gerald J. Seiler

Genetics for Improving Crop Water Use Efficiency
Zhengbin Zhang¹, Ping Xu¹ and Jizeng Jia²

Increasing crop-water productivity through genetic improvement for tolerance to water stresses in maize (Zea mays L.)
Pervez H. Zaidi¹, Ganesan Srinivasan² and N.N. Singh¹

Recent Advances in the Marker-Assisted Selection for Drought Tolerance in Pearl Millet
Rachid Serraj¹, C.T. Hash¹, Rattan S. Yadav² and Fran R. Bidinger¹

A Midwestern USA Perspective on Water Use Efficiency and Drought Tolerance in the Soybean
Author: James E. Specht¹

Developing high yielding wheat for water limited environments in northern Australia
John T. Christopher¹, Andrew K. Borrell², A.M. Manschadi³, Graeme Hammer³ and Scott Chapman⁴

Differences in drought avoidance root characteristics among several millet species
Walter Zegada-Lizarazu and Morio Iijima

Heritability of Drought–Resistance Traits in Peanut
Alan Cruickshank¹, Arnaud Dowkiw¹², Graeme Wright¹, NageswaraRao C. Rachaputi¹ and Shyam Nigam³

Morpho-agronomical variation among diverse lentil genotypes under rainfed environments in Nepal
R Shrestha^{1, 2}, K.H.M. Siddique¹, David W. Turner² and Neil C. Turner^{1, 3}

Enhancing adaptation of large-seeded kabuli chickpea to drought prone environments
S.S. Yadav¹, J. Kumar¹, Neil C. Turner², F.J. Muehlbauer³, E.J. Knights⁴, Bob Redden⁵, David McNeil⁵ and Jens Berger⁶

Genotypic differences for drought resistance in Lablab purpureus L.
Cristine Hall¹ and B.P. Naidu^1,2

Genotypic variation in tropical maize for growth maintenance under drought.
Claude Welcker¹, Jean-Marcel Ribaut², Bertrand Muller¹ and François Tardieu¹

Identification of drought tolerant sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam) cultivars
Prabawardani Saraswati ¹, Mark Johnston², Ross Coventry¹ and Joseph Holtum¹

Effect of Drought Tolerance on Preharvest Aflatoxin Contamination in Peanut
C. C. Holbrook, B. Z. Guo, D. M. Wilson, and C. K. Kvien.