Molecular breeding approaches involving physiological and reproductive traits for heat tolerance in food crops

Heat stress is a significant threat that limits crop yield and fecundity all over the world. Prevalent strategies for heat adaptation that alter technical and management systems are inadequate to sustain yield. As such, the identification of heat-tolerant genotypes with improved yield potential is crucial. Raising tolerant and stable cultivars can be tedious as heat-stress responses are highly variable across different developmental stages....