Frontiers | Potato Response to Drought Stress: Physiological and Growth Basis
Drought poses a major challenge to potato production worldwide. Climate change is predicted to further aggravate this challenge by intensifying potato crop exposure to increased drought severity and frequency. There is an ongoing effort to adapt our potato production systems through development of drought-tolerant cultivars that are appropriately engineered for the changing environment. Breeding of drought- tolerant cultivars can be approached through the identification of drought-related physiological and biochemical traits and their deployment in new potato cultivars. Thus, the main objectiv...
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