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Plant stress caused by drought and salinity are among the major constraints on crop production and food security worldwide. Breeding programs to improve crop yield in dry and saline environments have progressed slowly due to our limited understanding of the underlying physiological, biochemical, developmental, and genetic mechanisms that determine plant responses to these forms of stress, as well as to technical difficulties in combining favorable alleles to create the improved high yielding genotypes needed for these environments. Advances in Molecular Breeding toward Drought and Salt Tolerant Crops seeks to integrate the most recent findings about key biological determinants of plant stress tolerance with modern crop improvement strategies. This volume is unique because is provides exceptionally wide coverage of current knowledge and expertise being applied in drought and salt tolerance research, spanning the scientific hierarchy from physiology, biochemistry, development, and genetics, to the newest technologies being used to manipulate drought and salinity associated traits for germplasm improvement. This book will be an invaluable reference for educators and researchers in agronomy and horticulture, crop breeding, molecular genetics, and biotechnology.

Crops --- Drought-tolerant plants. --- Plants --- Salt-tolerant crops. --- Soils, Salts in. --- Molecular genetics. --- Drought tolerance. --- Saline soils --- Soil salinity --- Soils --- Salinity --- Halophytic crops --- Biosaline resources --- Halophytes --- Saline irrigation --- Drought resistance of plants --- Drought tolerance of plants --- Drought-tolerant plants --- Drought-enduring plants --- Drought-hardy plants --- Drought-resistant plants --- Low water use plants --- Water-conserving plants --- Xeriscaping --- Xerophytes --- Agricultural crops --- Crop plants --- Farm crops --- Industrial crops --- Farm produce --- Plants, Cultivated --- Agronomy --- Crop science --- Plant products --- Salts content --- Composition --- Effect of salts on --- Drought resistance --- Hardiness --- Effect of drought on --- Drought tolerance --- Plant genetics. --- Botany. --- Plant Genetics and Genomics. --- Plant Sciences. --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Biology --- Natural history --- Genetics --- Plant science. --- Floristic botany