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GENERAL STRESS
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Obtain
climatic data for your location
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New handbook for standardized measurement of plant functional
traits worldwide (via DiverSus – mainly ecology)
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Pollen
germination and pollen tube elongation
§ Pollen
viability/sterility tests – Item1 ; Item2
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Practical
approaches to plant volatile analysis
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Soluble carbohydrates
(SEE also WSC under drought)
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Hormone Analysis – problems and solutions
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Phytohormones:
abscisic acid, jasmonic acid and salicylic acid in
Arabidopsis
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Ethylene determination in plants
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CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE – PRINCIPLES AND APPS (See book)
§ Relations
to Stress
§ integration
with thermography.
§ PhotosynQ – a light
portable leaf measurement system
§ An
example of application
(crop plant).
§ An
example of application
(Arabidopsis).
§ Check
this site for instruments.
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Xylem sap
collection and extraction to determine abscisic acid
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Proline analysis – The still popular fast method by Bates
et al. (1973) – and more recent improvements.
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SPECTRAL CANOPY SIGNATURES AND REMOTE
SENSING FOR ASSESSING CROP STRESS AND PRODUCTIVITY
§ Leaf
canopy temperature and its measurement with the infrared thermometer in the
field
§ Relations to water indices in soil and plant
§ Equipment
examples: GreenSeeker ; Crop-Circle; Yara-N Sensor
§ NDVI measurement – a practical example from CIMMYT
§ Spectral
reflectance for phenotyping “stay-green” (“non senescence”).
§ Thermal imaging (heat sensing camera) for identifying
plant response to drought stress
§ Thermal
and spectral imaging of plant stress
§ “FLIR-one” – A
thermal imaging attachment for your smart phone (not yet verified for plant
work)
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Plant Image
Analysis – a collection of software
o Wheat
Physiological Breeding II: A Field Guide to Wheat Phenotyping. (CIMMYT
publication) (Large pdf file).
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Various Plant
Biology Protocols (links on this site)
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Measuring
the greenhouse environment
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Using pots in plant research – not
so simple o
The pot
experiment – How to avoid common pitfalls. o
The Art of Growing Plants for Experimental Purpose o
Managing pot water
status – a critique o
Applying experimental ‘drought’ to pots - the
interpretation of results |
DROUGHT
STRESS
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Soil
moisture methods (review and tests)
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PLANT WATER STATUS
§ The pressure chamber for plant water status
measurement
§ Relative water content (RWC) as a measure of plant water status
§ The pressure-volume curve – an important tool, not for
large scale phenotyping
§ Detailed
discussion of measurements and their theoretical basis – including more
intricate methods such as thermocouple psychrometry
§ Osmotic adjustment and its measurement
§ Fast
indirect estimate of osmotic adjustment for large breeding populations
§ See
remote sensing methods of plant stress - above
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A NEW NON-EVASIVE TURGOR RELATED
MONITORING OF PLANT WATER STATUS
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The Sap Flow method for measuring transpiration and associated
data in trees
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An
electronic potometer for studying plant water use in real time
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Stomatal conductance (an example from CIMMYT; instruments
may vary)
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Rapid colorimetric assay for epicuticular wax – Tested
against the classical gravimetric method
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‘Stay-green’
laboratory assay under non-stress conditions (sorghum)
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Using PEG for
controlling plant water status in experiments
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XYLEM VULNERABILITY TO CAVITATION AND
EMBOLISM IN WOODY PLANTS
§ Conduits in wood – their
measurements and the assessment of hydraulic vulnerability Xylem vulnerability curves
§ More on
Xylem vulnerability curves
§ Visualizations of Drought-Induced Embolism
§ How to quantify conduits in
wood
§ Methods of measuring Vulnerability to cavitation
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IMPROVING
WHEAT GRAIN FILLING UNDER STRESS BY STEM RESERVE UTILIZATION
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Water Soluble Carbohydrates (WSC) determination in stems
(wheat example from CIMMYT).
§ Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR)
for quantifying stem carbohydrates
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The
Drought (Stress) Resistance Index – Estimating drought resistance in terms
of yield or biomass
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C-isotope composition as a measure of intrinsic water-use
efficiency
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THE MANAGED DROUGHT STRESS ENVIRONMENT
IN THE FIELD
§ An Australian case
for wheat
§ Rainout shelters – some basic principles of design
and operation
SALINITY
STRESS
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Salt
tolerance protocols; by Bado S. et al. 2016 (open
access by IAEA and Springer)
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Comparing
nutrient solution with soil and field screening for tolerance
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Electro-Magnetic Induction (EMI) to Determine Soil Salinity and
Sodicity in Turf Root Zones
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Screening methods for salinity tolerance: a case study with
tetraploid wheat
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Soluble ions in
salt-affected plants
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Protocols for Pre-Field Screening of Mutants for Salt Tolerance
in Rice, Wheat and Barley, 2016 book.
HEAT STRESS
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Cell Membrane
Stability (CMS) by the electro-conductivity method
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Chlorophyll content reduction under heat
stress – see Leaf
chlorophyll
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Chlorophyll Fluorescence (see under General
Stress above)
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Pollen dysfunction under heat stress
(see under General Stress above)
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High-Throughput Screening of Temperature-Sensitive rice grain
a-Amylase
o Heat tolerance phenotyping in the growth chamber – important
issues to consider
COLD
STRESS
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Cold tolerance tests in temperate cereals
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Cold
tolerance tests in rice
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Screening methods to identify post-head-emergence frost
adaptation in wheat and barley
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Chlorophyll Fluorescence for chilling stress
(see under General Stress above)
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Pollen dysfunction under chilling stress
(see under General Stress above)
MINERAL
TOXICITY STRESS
o Aluminum
resistance screening assay (alfalfa)
o Aluminum
resistance screening assay (pigeon pea)
o Aluminum resistance screening assay (cereals - review)
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Evaluation
of aluminum tolerance by hematoxylin root staining
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The Eriochrome cyanine R root staining method
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Trace
metal phytotoxicity in solution culture: a review
MINERAL
DEFICIENCY STRESS
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Calculation of
nitrogen-use efficiency
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Handbook of Reference Methods for Plant Analysis, 1998
(classic)
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Recent
developments in fast spectroscopy for plant mineral analysis, 2015
WATERLOGGING
STRESS
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A
Comparison of Screening Methods in Brassica napus L.
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Measurement of porosity in very small samples of plant tissue
OXIDATIVE
STRESS
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Fingerprinting
Antioxidative Activities in Plants (Contributed by Livia Saleh and
Christoph Plieth)
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Metabolic
and Proteomic Markers for Oxidative Stress. New Tools.
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Oxidative stress and antioxidative systems