Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

1. Development of biotechnologies and biotech crops for stable food production under adverse environments and changing climate conditions
   Kazuo Nakashima

Chapter 2: Development of drought-tolerant rice and wheat

1. Outline of the Project Entitled “Development of Drought-Tolerant Crops for Developing Countries”
   Takeshi Urao
2. Agrobacterium-mediated transformation system using immature embryos can effectively generate transgenic rice plants with a single copy of the transgene
   Takuma Ishizaki
3. Towards development of drought tolerant upland rice through international research collaborations from gene discovery to trait evaluation: in case of OsNAC6 gene as example
   Michael Gomez Selvaraj, Takuma Ishizaki, Kazuo Nakashima, Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, Beata Dedicova, Jagadish Rane, Milton Valencia, Chavez Alba Lucia, Manabu Ishitani

Chapter 3: Development of drought-tolerant soybean and sugarcane

1. Outline of the SATREPS project “Development of genetic engineering technology of crops with stress tolerance against degradation of global environment”
   Kazuo Nakashima, Kazuo Shinozaki, Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, Alexandre Lima Nepomuceno
2. Drought-tolerant soybean development: evaluation of GM lines under greenhouse and field conditions
   Renata Fuganti-Pagliarini, Silvana Regina Rockenbach Marin, Mayla Daiane Côrrea Molinari, Daniel de Amorim Barbosa, Hugo Molinari, Liliane Márcia Mertz-Henning, Norman Neumaier, José Renato Bouças Farias, Kazuo Nakashima, Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, Alexandre Lima Nepomuceno
3. Development of drought-tolerant sugarcane overexpressing the AtDREB2A CA gene
   Wagner Rodrigo de Souza, Nelson Geraldo de Oliveira, Felipe Vinecky, Ana Paula Ribeiro, Marcos Fernando Basso, Raphael Augusto das Chagas Noqueli Casari, Bárbara Andrade Dias Brito da Cunha, Alexandre Lima Nepomuceno, Adilson Kenji Kobayashi, Kazuo Nakashima, Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, Hugo Bruno Correa Molinari

Appendix

Development of technologies and crops for stable food production under adverse environments and changing climate conditions
Kazuo Nakashima