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  <title>Drought stress tolerance in Wheat: Recent QTL mapping advances</title>

      <doi>https://doi.org/10.21276/AATCCReview.2025.13.02.220</doi>
  
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      <abstract><![CDATA[<p>In the last decade, the increasing of global warming has bad impact on crop plants. Climate<br />
change is a major threat for plants in several locations including tropical and subtropical areas.<br />
Global warming has negative effects on plants including drought resistance. Drought<br />
stress is a global challenge that significantly impacts crop productivity. It adversely affects plants at<br />
morphological, physiological, and molecular levels. However, plants can adapt to drought stress through<br />
mechanisms that can be modified using breeding techniques, such as drought avoidance, drought<br />
tolerance, drought escape, and hardening. Wheat plants, for instance, can survive under drought stress<br />
by altering their internal mechanisms or activating specific signaling pathways. In response to drought<br />
stress, wheat plants exhibit a variety of morphological, physiological, and biochemical adaptations. In<br />
addition, molecular breeding is a very good step to reduce the effect of drought stress on wheat<br />
plants. In molecular breeding, several drought drought-resistance quantitative trait loci (QTLs)<br />
have been identified. In this review paper, we included some major drought drought-stress QTLs<br />
for wheat.</p>
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                <div class="aatcc-abstract-text"><p>In the last decade, the increasing of global warming has bad impact on crop plants. Climate<br />
change is a major threat for plants in several locations including tropical and subtropical areas.<br />
Global warming has negative effects on plants including drought resistance. Drought<br />
stress is a global challenge that significantly impacts crop productivity. It adversely affects plants at<br />
morphological, physiological, and molecular levels. However, plants can adapt to drought stress through<br />
mechanisms that can be modified using breeding techniques, such as drought avoidance, drought<br />
tolerance, drought escape, and hardening. Wheat plants, for instance, can survive under drought stress<br />
by altering their internal mechanisms or activating specific signaling pathways. In response to drought<br />
stress, wheat plants exhibit a variety of morphological, physiological, and biochemical adaptations. In<br />
addition, molecular breeding is a very good step to reduce the effect of drought stress on wheat<br />
plants. In molecular breeding, several drought drought-resistance quantitative trait loci (QTLs)<br />
have been identified. In this review paper, we included some major drought drought-stress QTLs<br />
for wheat.</p>
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