Jingxian Zhang

TL;DR: Future promising strategies for improving drought resistance lie in molecular technology that allows genes or QTLs controlling OA to be tagged and isolated, these genes to be expressed in transgenic plants, and efficiency of breeding via marker-assisted selection to be improved.

TL;DR: Results indicated that the production of HVA1 proteins might have helped in better performance of transgenic rice plants by protecting cell membrane from injury under drought stress.

TL;DR: This is the first report of mapping QTLs associated with CMS under a natural water stress condition in any crop plants, and it indicates that CMS should be polygenic in nature.

TL;DR: Results suggest that three conserved genomic regions associated with various physiological responses to drought in several grass species have been conserved across grass species during genome evolution and might be directly applied across species for the improvement of drought resistance in cereal crops.

TL;DR: The results identifying chromosome regions that had putative QTLs for deep root morphology and root thickness over different mapping populations indicate potential for marker-assisted selection for these traits.