1Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Rajendra Agricultural University, Pusa (Samastipur) 848 125, Bihar
2Crop Improvement Division, Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur-208 024, UP
3Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Allahabad School of Agriculture, Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad-211 007, UP
*E-mail: cmsingh.gpb@gmail.com
Online published on 18 February, 2013.
Plant growth and productivity of rice is adversely affected by various biotic and abiotic stress factors. Water deficit is one of the major abiotic stresses, which adversely affects crop growth and yield. Water stress is a limiting factor in agriculture production by preventing a crop from reaching the genetically determined theoretical maximum yield. In plants, a better understanding of the morphological and physiological basis of changes in water stress resistance could be used to select or create new varieties of crops to obtain a better performance under water stress conditions. This review describes some aspects of drought induced effect of drought stress on morphological, physiological yield and its associated traits in rice.
Rice, waterstress, morphological traits, physiological traits, yield component traits
