Drought Tolerance in Modern and Wild Wheat

Table 1

Transcript, protein, metabolite profiling studies conducted in the last three years.

Species	Cultivars	Tissue	Drought stress application	Method	Reference
T. aestivum	Drought tolerance: Plainsman V: tolerant; Kobomugi: sensitive	Root	Moderate drought stress applied on tillering stage	cDNA microarray	[7]
T. aestivum	Drought tolerance: information can not be accessed	Grain	Short water shortage in early grain development	cDNA microarray	[8]
T. aestivum	Efficiency of stem reserve mobilization in peduncles: N49: tolerant; N14: sensitive	Stem	Progressive drought stress after anthesis	2D gel and MS	[9]
T. aestivum	Cultivar Vinjett	Grain	Drought applied at terminal spiklet or at anthesis	2D gel and MS	[10]
T. aestivum	Yield under drought: Excalibur: tolerant; RAC875: tolerant; Kukri: sensitive	Leaf	Cyclic drought applied after first flag leaf formation mimicking field conditions	SCX column HPLC and MS	[11]
T. durum	Able to acquire drought tolerance: Ofanto: tolerant	Leaf	Drought applied at booting stage (controls SWC: irrigated when it decreases %50 of field capacity; drought SWC: irrigated when it decreases %12.5 of field capacity)	cDNA-AFLP	[12]
T. durum	Drought tolerance: Om Rabia3: tolerant; Mahmoudi: sensitive	Embryo	Drought applied at final development stage of seed maturity	2D gel and HPRP column and MS	[13]
T. dicoccoides	Yield under drought conditions: Y12-3: tolerant; A24-39: sensitive	Leaf	Terminal drought applied at inflorescence emergence stage	Transcript profiling	[14]
T. dicoccoides	Yield under drought conditions: Y12-3: tolerant; A24-39: sensitive	Leaf	Drought applied after germination at five/six leaf stage	Transcript and metabolite profiling	[14]
T. dicoccoides	Drought tolerance: TR39477: tolerant; TR38828: tolerant	Leaf/root	Shock drought stress	miRNA profiling	[15]

T: Triticum; SWC: soil water content; 2D: 2-dimensional; SCX: strong cation exchange; HPLC: high performance liquid chromatography; MS: mass spectrometry; cDNA: complementary DNA; AFLP: amplified fragment length polymorphisms; HPRP: human prion protein.