Producing more food per unit of water has never been as important as it is at present, and the demand for water by economic sectors other than agriculture will necessarily put a great deal of pressure on a dwindling resource, leading to a call for increases in the productivity of water in agricul...
Vadez, Vincent
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Kholová, Jana
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Medina S
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Kakkera A
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Anderberg H
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[Transpiration efficiency: New insight into an old story]
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Transpiration efficiency: New insight into an old story
Post-rainy sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) production underpins the livelihood of millions in the semiarid tropics, where the crop is affected by drought. Drought scenarios have been classified and quantified using crop simulation. In this report, variation in traits that hypothetically con...
Kholová, Jana
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Murugesan, Tharanya
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Kaliamoorthy S
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Malayee S
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Baddam R
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Hammer, Graeme L.
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McLean G
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Deshpande, S.
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Hash, C.T.
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Craufurd, Peter Q.
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Vadez, Vincent
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[Modelling the effect of plant water use traits on yield and stay-green expression in sorghum]
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Modelling the effect of plant water use traits on yield and stay-green expression in sorghum
During the post-rainy (rabi) season in India around 3 million tonnes of sorghum grain is produced from 5.7 million ha of cropping. This underpins the livelihood of about 5 million households. Severe drought is common as the crop grown in these areas relies largely on soil moisture stored during t...
Kholová, Jana
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McLean G
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Vadez, Vincent
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Craufurd, Peter Q.
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Hammer, Graeme L.
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[Drought stress characterization of post-rainy season (rabi) sorghum in India]
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Drought stress characterization of post-rainy season (rabi) sorghum in India
Water deficit is the main yield-limiting factor across the Asian and African semiarid tropics and a basic consideration when developing crop cultivars for water-limited conditions is to ensure that crop water demand matches season water supply. Conventional breeding has contributed to the develop...
Vadez, Vincent
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Kholová, Jana
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Zaman-Allah, M.A.
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Belko, N.
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[Water: the most important ‘molecular’ component of water stress tolerance research]
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Water: the most important ‘molecular’ component of water stress tolerance research