Omics Approaches for Developing Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Wheat

Abstract

Wheat yield is greatly influenced by the environmental factors such as drought, salt, and high or low temperature. Understanding the molecular mechanisms of stress tolerance effectively requires information at the genomic, proteomic, and transcriptomic levels. The continuous progress in the analytical and the experimental technologies resulted in the development of many experimental approaches that can identify the cellular molecules. These technologies called “omics technologies.” Most of them are high throughput with very fast rates of data generation and huge outputs. They are based on bioinformatics, statistical and computational tools. These technologies have made obvious contributions to the current progressions in our understanding of plant biology as a whole or in particular plant stress tolerance. In this chapter, I will present the foremost omics technologies in the view of conventional and modern approaches being used to dissect abiotic stress tolerance in wheat.