Pearl millet stover is an important cattle feed particularly in arid areas and nutritional quality traits of the stover become more and more important. Eight commercial and two experimental hybrids of pearl millet were evaluated for stover fodder quality traits and their potential trade-off with ...
Blümmel, Michael
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Khan, A.A.
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Vadez, Vincent
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Hash, C.T.
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Rai, Kedar N.
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[Variability in stover quality traits in commercial hybrids of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.) and grain-stover trait relationships]
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Variability in stover quality traits in commercial hybrids of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.) and grain-stover trait relationships
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
Plant phenology is a critical component of crop adaptation, especially under environmental conditions that don’t allow crop growth for unlimited periods. In chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), which faces terminal drought and increasing temperature at the end of its growing season, it is widely consid...
Vadez, Vincent
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Soltani A
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Sinclair, Thomas R.
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[Crop simulation analysis of phenological adaptation of chickpea to different latitudes of India]
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Crop simulation analysis of phenological adaptation of chickpea to different latitudes of India
Crop growth simulation models are a useful tool to assess the impact of environment, crop management, genetics and breeding strategies, as well as climate change and variability on growth and yield. Any crop science experiment that measures key physiological processes, tests these productive proc...
Craufurd, Peter Q.
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Vadez, Vincent
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Jagadish, Krishna S.V.
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Vara Prasad PV
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Zaman-Allah, M.A.
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[Crop science experiments designed to inform crop modeling]
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Crop science experiments designed to inform crop modeling
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
With the potential threat of more frequent climate extremes putting semi-arid crop production in jeopardy, there is a need to establish more climate resilient cropping practices. Intercropping is often practiced by farmers in semi-arid regions and is perceived as a risk reducing practice. However...
Nelson, W.C.D.
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Hoffmann, M.P.
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Vadez, Vincent
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Roetter, R.P.
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Whitbread, Anthony M.
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[Testing pearl millet and cowpea intercropping systems under high temperatures]
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Testing pearl millet and cowpea intercropping systems under high temperatures
West Africa (WA) is among the most food insecure regions. Rapid human population growth and stagnating crop yields greatly contribute to this fact. Poor soil fertility, especially low plant available phosphorus (P) is constraining food production in the region. P-fertilizer use in WA is among the...
Gemenet, D.C.
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Leiser, W.L.
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Beggi, F.
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Herrmann, L.H.
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Vadez, Vincent
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Rattunde, H.F.W.
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Weltzien, Eva
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Hash, C.T.
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Buerkert, Andreas
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Haussmann, B.I.G.
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[Overcoming phosphorus deficiency in West African pearl millet and sorghum production systems: promising options for crop improvement]
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Overcoming phosphorus deficiency in West African pearl millet and sorghum production systems: promising options for crop improvement
Groundnut haulm has a great value as feed stock in the semi-arid tropics. Two-hundred-two and 194 cultivars of groundnut grown under intermittent water stress and fully irrigated treatment for two consecutive years at ICRISAT (2008/2009 and 2009/2010) in Patancheru in India were investigated for ...
Blümmel, Michael
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Ratnakumar, P.
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Vadez, Vincent
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[Opportunities for exploiting variations in haulm fodder traits of intermittent drought tolerant lines in a reference collection of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.)]
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Opportunities for exploiting variations in haulm fodder traits of intermittent drought tolerant lines in a reference collection of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.)
Staygreen quantitative trait loci (QTL) were introgressed into sorghum genetic backgrounds S-35 and R-16 generating 52 and 39 lines, respectively, to investigate the effects of staygreen introgression on stover fodder traits and grain–stover relationships. Trials were conducted in the post-rainy ...
Blümmel, Michael
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Deshpande, S.
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Kholová, Jana
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Vadez, Vincent
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[Introgression of staygreen QLT's for concomitant improvement of food and fodder traits in Sorghum bicolor]
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Introgression of staygreen QLT's for concomitant improvement of food and fodder traits in Sorghum bicolor
Two pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] stover fodder traits, nitrogen content (N) and in vitro digestibility, were targeted to investigate their modes of inheritance and to assess the scope for improving them relative to a base population. From a full-sib (FS) base population of pearl ...
Choudhary, S.
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Bidinger, F.R.
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Hash, C.T.
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Vadez, Vincent
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Blümmel, Michael
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[Gene action governing pearl millet stover nitrogen and in Vitro digestibility and opportunities for improvement]
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Gene action governing pearl millet stover nitrogen and in Vitro digestibility and opportunities for improvement