Advances in Crop Science and Technology
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Review Article

Impacts of Heat Stress on Wheat: A Critical Review

Muhammad Iqbal^1*, Naveed Iqbal Raja¹, Farhat Yasmeen¹, Mubashir Hussain¹, Muhammad Ejaz¹ and Muhammad Ali Shah²

¹Department of Botany PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan

²Department of Biotechnology, University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan

*Corresponding Author:

Muhammad Iqbal
Department of Botany
PMAS-Arid Agriculture University
Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Tel: 00923135338714
E-mail: mmiqballali@gmail.com

Received date: December 27, 2016; Accepted date: January 07, 2017; Published date: January 12, 2017

Citation: Iqbal M, Raja NI, Yasmeen F, Hussain M, Ejaz M, et al. (2017) Impacts of Heat Stress on Wheat: A Critical Review. Adv Crop Sci Tech 5:251. doi:10.4172/2329-8863.1000251

Copyright: © 2017 Iqbal M, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

A brief review is given of investigations on stress-induced alterations in the yield of different biochemical contents in wheat. Wheat is major cereal crop for fulfilling the calories demands of growing population. Alterations in the worldwide climate are predicted to have critical sentence for crop production. Abiotic stresses such as heat and drought are major abiotic stresses restraining crop production. Heat stress reduces wheat growth by upsetting various physiological and biochemical processes and the developmental stage of the plant is critical in demonstrating the vulnerability of various species and cultivars subjected to high temperature. Heat stress did not affect the protein content but there is strong correlation between leaf nitrogen content and grain protein content. Induction of HSPs seems to be the universal response and adaptation to temperature stress. The synthesis of HSPs is believed to play significant role either in preventing or minimizing the adverse effects of high temperature both at molecular and cellular levels. Wheat has the tendency to adopt diverse types of responses to temperature stress as well as a heat shock by developing thermo-tolerance for the enhancement of the grain quality and yield.

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