Driving Sustainable Popcorn Breeding for Drought Tolerance in Brazil.

ABSTRACT: Drought currently affects several regions worldwide and tends to be more frequent due to climate change. It might compromise food security and the economic structure related to agribusiness. Popcorn has a crucial role in the Brazilian economy, but the cultivars that adapt to water stress, the most prejudicial abiotic stress for crop productivity, are unknown to date. This deficit of popcorn varieties adapted to heat and drought stresses will become more limiting with climate change. Given this scenario, knowing the genetic basis of agronomic traits under stress conditions is essential in promoting crop productivity and plant adaptation to abiotic stresses. Under two contrasting water conditions (WC) and different crop seasons (CS), we aimed to generate information about the combining abili

SUBMITTER: Kamphorst SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8491626 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature