Advances and prospects:Biotechnologically improving crop water use efficiency----中国科学院遗传发育所农业资源研究中心

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论文题目	Advances and prospects:Biotechnologically improving crop water use efficiency
作　　者	Zhang Zhengbin（张正斌）,Xu Ping（徐萍）,Shao Hongbo, Liu Mengjun, Fu Zhenyan（付振艳）, andChu Liye;
发表年度	2011
刊物名称	Critical Reviews in Biotechnology
卷、期、页码	1–13; ; online
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论文摘要	Bio-water saving can be defined as the reduction of crop water consumption employing biological measures. This is the focus of efforts to save water in agriculture. Different levels of water-use efficiency (WUE) have been developed. The genetic diversity of WUE has been confirmed in several crops. WUE is the basis of bio-watering and physiological WUE is the key. The degree to develop physiological WUE potential decides the performance of bio-watering in the field. During this process, fine management is important. Thus bio-watering is closely related to WUE. Crop WUE has improved and evolved as a result of breeding programs. Many WUE genes have been located in different genomic and aneuploid materials and have been mapped by various molecular markers in a number of crops. Two genes, (Erecta and alx8), which control water use efficiency; have been cloned in Arabidopsis thaliana. Eleven WUE genes have been identified by microarray analysis. Six genes associated with drought resistance and photosynthesis havebeen transfered into crops which have resulted in improving WUE and drought resistance. WUE is important on the basis of functional identification of more drought resistant gene resources. The popularity on the industrial-scale of transgenic plants is still in its infancy and one of the reasons for this is the lack of knowledge regarding molecular mechanisms and it is a very immature technology. Enhanced agricultural practices and the theoretical aspects of improving crop WUE have been developed and are discussed in this review paper. Rapid progress will be made in biowater savings and that crop WUE can be substantially improved under both favorable and unfavorable water-limited environments. This will be achieved by a combination of traditional breeding techniques and the introduction of modern biotechnology
全文链接	http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/07388551.2010.531004
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