View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by ICRISAT Open Access Repository Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 34:237–280, 2015 Copyright C Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 0735-2689 print / 1549-7836 online DOI: 10.1080/07352689.2014.898450 Abiotic Stress Responses in Legumes: Strategies Used to Cope with Environmental Challenges Susana S. Araujo,´ 1,2 Steve Beebe,3 Martin Crespi,4 Bruno Delbreil,5 Esther M. Gonzalez,´ 6 Veronique Gruber,4,7 Isabelle Lejeune-Henaut,5 Wolfgang Link,8 Maria J. Monteros,9 Elena Prats,10 Idupulapati Rao,3 Vincent Vadez,11 and Maria C. Vaz Patto2 1Instituto de Investigac¸ao˜ Cient´ıfica Tropical (IICT), Lisboa, Portugal 2Instituto de Tecnologia Qu´ımica e Biologica´ Antonio´ Xavier (ITQB), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal 3Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Cali, Colombia 4Institut des Sciences du Veg´ etal´ (ISV), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, SPS Saclay Plant Sciences, Gif sur Yvette, France 5Universite´ Lille 1, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France 6Universidad Publica´ de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain 7Universite´ Paris Diderot Paris 7, Paris, France 8Department of Crop Sciences, Georg-August-University, Goettingen, Germany 9The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma, USA 10Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Cordoba,´ Spain 11International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, India Table of Contents I. INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................................................................................238 II. ABIOTIC STRESS RESPONSES IN MODEL LEGUMES ................................................................................................................239 A. Drought Stress .......................................................................................................................................................................................................239 B. Salt Stress ................................................................................................................................................................................................................245 C. Cold Stress ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................247 D. Symbiosis under Abiotic Stress ......................................................................................................................................................................249 III. ABIOTIC STRESS RESPONSE OF LEGUME CROPS ......................................................................................................................250 A. Common Bean .......................................................................................................................................................................................................251 1. Abiotic stress responses ...............................................................................................................................................................................251 Downloaded by [North Dakota State University] at 02:06 28 October 2014 a. Drought .......................................................................................................................................................................................................251 b. Heat ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................252 c. Soil constraints ........................................................................................................................................................................................252 2. Genomics and multiple stress tolerance ................................................................................................................................................253 3. Strategies for breeding the ideal phenotype .........................................................................................................................................253 B. Chickpea ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................254 1. Abiotic stress responses ...............................................................................................................................................................................254 a. Drought .......................................................................................................................................................................................................254 2. Heat and salinity .............................................................................................................................................................................................256 C. Pea .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................256 Address correspondence to Maria C. Vaz Patto, Instituto de Tecnologia Qu´ımica e Biologica´ (ITQB), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal. E-mail: [email protected] 237 238 S. S. ARAUJO´ ET AL. 1. Abiotic stress responses ...............................................................................................................................................................................256 2. Breeding approaches ....................................................................................................................................................................................258 3. Future perspectives ........................................................................................................................................................................................259 D. Faba Bean ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................259 1. Abiotic stress responses ...............................................................................................................................................................................259 a. Drought .......................................................................................................................................................................................................259 b. Cold .............................................................................................................................................................................................................261 E. Forage Legumes ....................................................................................................................................................................................................262 1. Abiotic stress responses ...............................................................................................................................................................................262 a. Drought .......................................................................................................................................................................................................262 b. Heat tolerance ..........................................................................................................................................................................................263 c. Freezing tolerance ..................................................................................................................................................................................263 d. Soil pH and aluminum toxicity ..........................................................................................................................................................264 e. Soil salinity ...............................................................................................................................................................................................264 2. Breeding approaches ....................................................................................................................................................................................265 F. Minor Grain Legumes ........................................................................................................................................................................................265 1. Abiotic stress responses ...............................................................................................................................................................................265 2. Challenges due to abiotic constraints .....................................................................................................................................................265 3. Breeding achievements ................................................................................................................................................................................266