118 I. M. Ahmed et al.
Manivannan P, Jaleel CA, Somasundaram R, Panneerselvam R. Osmoregulation and antioxidant
metabolism in drought-stressed Helianthus annuus under triadimefon drenching. Comptes
Rend Biol. 2008;331:418–25.
Mano Y, Takeda K. Mapping quantitative trait loci for salt tolerance at germination and the seed-
ling stage in barley ( Hordeum vulgare L.). Euphytica. 1997;94:263–72.
Mansour M, Salama K, Ali F, Abou Hadid A. Cell and plant responses to NaCl in Zea mays L.
cultivars differing in salt tolerance. Gen Appl Plant Physiol. 2005;31:29–41.
Marcum K, Pessarakli M. Salinity tolerance and salt gland excretion efficiency of bermuda grass
turf cultivars. Crop Sci. 2006;46:2571–4.
Mare C, Mazzucotelli E, Crosatti C, Francia E, Stanca AM, Cattivelli L. Hv-WRKY38: a
new transcription factor involved in cold- and drought-response in barley. Plant Mol Biol.
2004;55(3):399–416. doi:10.1007/s11103-004-0906-7.
Matysik J, Bhalu B, Mohanty P. Molecular mechanisms of quenching of reactive oxygen species
by proline under stress in plants. Curr Sci. 2002;82:525–32.
McNeil SD, Nuccio ML, Hanson AD. Betaines and related osmoprotectants. Targets for metabolic
engineering of stress resistance. Plant Physiol. 1999;120:945–9.
McWilliams D. Drought strategies for cotton. Cooperative Extension Service, Circular 582 Col-
lege of Agriculture and Home Economics. New Mexico State University, USA; 2003.
Meloni DA, Oliva MA, Ruiz HA, Martinez CA. Contribution of proline and inorganic solutes to
osmotic adjustment in cotton under salt stress. J Plant Nutr. 2001;24:599–612.
Miles CM, Wayne M. Quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis. Nat Educ. 2008;1 (1).
http://www .nature.com/scitable/topicpage/Quantitative-Trait-Locus-QTL-Analysis-53904.
Accessed 29 June 2012.
Mishra V, Cherkauer KA. Retrospective droughts in the crop growing season: implications to corn
and soybean yield in the Midwestern United States. Agric For Meteorol. 2010;150:1030–45.
Mitsuya S, Takeoka Y, Miyake H. Effects of sodium chloride on foliar ultrastructure of sweet po-
tato ( Ipomoea batatas Lam.) plantlets grown under light and dark conditions in vitro. J Plant
Physiol. 2000;157:661–7.
Mittler R. Abiotic stress, the field environment and stress combination. Trends Plant Sci.
2006;11:15–9.
Mohammadi M, Kav NNV, Deyholos MK. Transcriptional profiling of hexaploid wheat ( Triti-
cum aestivum L.) roots identifies novel, dehydration-responsive genes. Plant Cell Environ.
2007;30:630–45.
Muhammad W, Asghar A. Mechanism of drought tolerance in plant and its management through
different methods. Cont J Agric Sci. 2012;5:10–25.
Munns R. Comparative physiology of salt and water stress. Plant Cell Environ. 2002;25:239–50.
Munns R. Genes and salt tolerance: bringing them together. New Phytol. 2005;167:645–63.
Munns R, James RA, Läuchli A. Approaches to increasing the salt tolerance of wheat and other
cereals. J Exp Bot. 2006;57:1025.
Nayyar H, Gupta D. Differential sensitivity of C3 and C4 plants to water deficit stress: Association
with oxidative stress and antioxidants. Environ Exp Bot. 2006;58:106–13.
Nevo E, editors. Origin, evolution, population genetics and resources for breeding of wild barley,
Hordeum spontaneum in the Fertile Crescent. Barley: genetics, biochemistry, molecular biol-
ogy and biotechnology. Oxford: CAB; 1992. (The Alden Press)
Nicholson JK, Lindon JC, Holmes E. ‘Metabonomics’: understanding the metabolic responses of
living systems to pathophysiological stimuli via multivariate statistical analysis of biological
NMR spectroscopic data. Xenobiotica. 1999;29:1181–9.
Nio S, Cawthray G, Wade L, Colmer T. Pattern of solutes accumulated during leaf osmotic adjust-
ment as related to duration of water deficit for wheat at the reproductive stage. Plant Physiol
Biochem. 2011;49:1126–37.
Oliver MJ, Guo LN, Alexander DC, Ryals JA, Wone BW. A sister group contrast using untargeted
global metabolomic analysis delineates the biochemical regulation underlying desiccation tol-
erance in Sporobolus stapfianus. Plant Cell. 2011;23:1231–48.