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Plant and Cell Physiology 2009 50(7):1260-1276; doi:10.1093/pcp/pcp082
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This article appears in the following Plant and Cell Physiology issue: Special Issue Articles: Omics and Bioinformatics [View the issue table of contents]

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Physiological and Molecular Approaches to Improve Drought Resistance in Soybean

Lakshmi P. Manavalan1, Satish K. Guttikonda1, Lam-Son Phan Tran1,2,* and Henry T. Nguyen1,*

1National Center for Soybean Biotechnology and Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA

*Corresponding authors: Lam-Son Phan Tran, E-mail: tran{at}psc.riken.jp; Fax, +81-45-503-9591; Henry T. Nguyen, E-mail, nguyenhenry{at}missouri.edu; Fax: +1-573-882-1469.


  Abstract

Drought stress is a major constraint to the production and yield stability of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.]. For developing high yielding varieties under drought conditions, the most widely employed criterion has traditionally been direct selection for yield stability over multiple locations. However, this approach is time consuming and labor intensive, because yield is a highly quantitative trait with low heritability, and influenced by differences arising from soil heterogeneity and environmental factors. The alternative strategy of indirect selection using secondary traits has succeeded only in a few crops, due to problems with repeatability and lack of phenotyping strategies, especially for root-related traits. Considerable efforts have been directed towards identifying traits associated with drought resistance in soybean. With the availability of the whole genome sequence, physical maps, genetics and functional genomics tools, integrated approaches using molecular breeding and genetic engineering offer new opportunities for improving drought resistance in soybean. Genetic engineering for drought resistance with candidate genes has been reported in the major food crops, and efforts for developing drought-resistant soybean lines are in progress. The objective of this review is to consolidate the current knowledge of physiology, molecular breeding and func-tional genomics which may be influential in integrating breeding and genetic engineering approaches for drought resistance in soybean.

Keywords: Drought resistance - Genetic engineering - Marker-assisted selection - Physiological traits - Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr]

Abbreviations: AFLP, amplified fragment length polymorphism; BAC, bacterial artificial chromosome; CID, carbon isotope discrimination; EST, expressed sequence tag; ge, leaf epidermal conductance; HI, harvest index; LASH, leaf ash; LG, linkage group; OA, osmotic adjustment; PI line, plant introduction line; QTL, quantitative trait locus; RAPD, random amplified polymorphic DNA; RIL, recombinant inbred line; RFLP, restriction fragment length polymorphism; RWC, relative water content; SSR, simple sequence repeat; STS, sequence-tagged site; TE, transpiration efficiency; TF, transcription factor; WUE, water use efficiency.

2Present address: Signaling Pathway Research Unit, Gene Discovery Research Group, RIKEN Plant Science Center, 1-7-22 Suehiro, Tsurumi, Yokohama, 230-0045 Japan.

(Received April 13, 2009; Accepted June 4, 2009)
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