Breeding rice for drought-prone environments

Acknowledgments......Page 5
Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Icons......Page 6
About this manual......Page 8
Section 2 - Know your target environment......Page 12
Section 3 - Breeding to improve yield under adverse environments: direct selection for grain yield......Page 20
Improving drought tolerance by selecting for yield......Page 21
Managing water for controlled drought in breeding plots......Page 30
Experimental design and data management......Page 34
Section 4 - Breeding to improve yield under adverse environments: indirect selection using drought-tolerance traits......Page 38
How rice responds to drought......Page 39
Using secondary traits to help identify drought-tolerant genotypes......Page 44
Indirect selection for physiological traits for drought tolerance......Page 56
What molecular tools are available for selection 55
for drought tolerance?......Page 62
Bibliography......Page 65
Section 5 - Case studies of the application of approaches 63
for breeding for drought tolerance......Page 70
Designing a national breeding program for developing drought-tolerant rainfed lowland varieties: The Thailand experience......Page 71
A regional breeding program to develop drought-tolerant rainfed 70 lowland germplasm: IRRI’s experience in South and Southeast Asia......Page 77
Integrating selection for drought tolerance into a breeding program: the Brazilian experience......Page 82
Using marker-aided selection for a specific drought-tolerance trait......Page 91
Color photos......Page 98