Synthesized Attributes of Water Use by Regional Vegetation: A Key to Cognition of “Water Pump” Viewpoint

Table 2

Typical cases of study on potential of water saving and drought-resistance of plant species.

Research topic	Subject investigated	Study method	Literature source
Drought resistance (tolerance) mechanism	Plant species in arid area of China	Comprehensive review method	Li et al. (2010) [27]
Drought resistance identification and evaluation	Backcross lines of Dongxiang common wild rice (OryzarufipogonGriff.)	Correlation analysis combined with stepwise regression analysis	Fu et al. (2012) [28]
Drought resistance identification and evaluation	Different peanut varieties widely grown in Northern China	Drought coefficient method and Subordinate function value method	Zhang et al. (2012) [29]
Drought resistance identification and evaluation	Brassica napusL.	Principal component analysis, regression analysis, and clustering analysis	Zhu et al. (2011) [30]
Drought resistance identification and evaluation	Nine marigold cultivars	Principal component analysis, subordinate function, and cluster analysis	Tian et al. (2011) [31]
Basis for drought resistance regulation (improvement)	Crop plants	Comprehensive review method	Gill and Tuteja (2010) [32]
Basis for drought resistance regulation (improvement)	Bread wheat (Triticumaestivum L.).	Correlation analysis method	Osipova et al. (2011) [33]
Basis for drought resistance regulation (improvement)	Arabidopsis spp.	Vacuolar localization method	Wang et al. (2011) [34]
Basis for drought resistance regulation (improvement)	Transgenic tobacco (Nicotianatabacum cv. Xanthi) plants	Technologies method of molecular biology	Faize et al. (2011) [35]
Basis for drought resistance regulation (improvement)	Trifoliumalexandrinum	By using molecular biology technologies	Zézé et al. (2008) [36]
Basis for drought resistance regulation (improvement)	Haloxylonammodendron	Completely randomized plot experiment	Kang et al. (2012) [37]
Basis for drought resistance regulation (improvement)	Arabidopsis thaliana	Isotopic tracer method	Ikegami et al. (2009) [38]
Basis for drought resistance regulation (improvement)	Two psammophytes (Setariaviridis and Digitariaciliaris)	Completely randomized plot experiment	Luo et al. (2011) [39]