Abstract:
Wheat is a foremost staple
food crop of Pakistan and plays a vital role
for stability of country’s economy and
people’s food requirement. Shortage of
water has remained a consistent problem for
the farmers over past few years and
different agronomic techniques have been
introduced into the limelight. But there is an
immense scope of making some genetic
manipulations to improve/enhance the
drought tolerance of wheat. It has been
observed by many researchers that yield in
drought stress conditions, is a fine fusion of
the traits like days taken by crop to reach
physical maturity, water use efficiency, crop
water use and harvest index. Drought being
one of the main limiting factors of wheat
production should be highly preferred in the
future wheat improvement programs.
