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Drought is the most important and one of the leading natural disasters in the world. The fossil fuel burn, forests annihilation, industrial activities and the other human activities not only take together to rise carbon dioxide, methane, ozone and dinitrogen monoxide that called "greenhouse gasses" but also these factors cause greenhouse and finally the world warming. All these events that called as "Global Warming" occasion to climate changes, inside Turkey and especially the region of South Europe. Those areas will be affected quite arid and hot climate according to researchers. Venture that feed capacity for population from natural sources of the world decrease and die millions of people due to hunger, all living life are under danger. So that, the field crops that have more than 3/4 area of the agricultural area in the world has to determined which plant species resistant to drought stress and tolerance mechanism, preservation of drought resistant plant genetic sources and transfer and so on could be take effective role to decrease deficits of drought impact.