Maize, sorghum, and pearl millet have highly contrasting species strategies to adapt to water stress and climate change-like conditions
Sunita Choudhary,Sunita Choudhary,Anirban Guha,Jana Kholova,Anand Pandravada,Charlie Messina,Mark E. Cooper,Vincent Vadez,Vincent Vadez +8 more
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It is concluded that maize conserves water by restricting transpiration upon increasing VPD and under higher soil moisture than sorghum and millet, giving maize significantly higher TE, whereas sorghums and pearl millet rely mostly on reduced leaf area and somewhat on transpiration restriction.About:
This article is published in Plant Science.The article was published on 2020-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 34 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Transpiration & Sorghum.read more
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Climate Change Adaptation
TL;DR: In 2010, Ofcom was directed to provide the Secretary of State with a report on climate change adaptation as discussed by the authors, which was agreed with DEFRA and assessed the possible impacts of climate change in relation to these functions.
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Pearl Millet: A Climate-Resilient Nutricereal for Mitigating Hidden Hunger and Provide Nutritional Security.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have made a study on the climate-resilient features of pearl millet in comparison to the other major cereals, including rice, wheat, maize, barley and sorghum.
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Rice breeding for yield under drought has selected for longer flag leaves and lower stomatal density.
Santosh Kumar,Santosh Tripathi,Suresh Prasad Singh,Archana Prasad,Fahamida Akter,Abu Syed,Jyothi Badri,Sankar Prasad Das,Rudra Bhattarai,Mignon Natividad,Marinell R. Quintana,Challa Venkateshwarlu,Anitha Raman,Shailesh Yadav,Shravan K. Singh,Padmini Swain,Annamalai Anandan,Ram Baran Yadaw,N.P. Mandal,Satish B. Verulkar,Arvind Kumar,Amelia Henry +21 more
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of environmental parameters other than drought treatments on leaf traits was evidenced by close grouping of treatments within a site, and the stable expression of leaf traits among genotypes and the identification of the environmental conditions in which they contribute to yield, as well as the observation that some breeding lines showed longer time to flowering and higher canopy temperature than IR64, suggest that selection for additional physiological traits may result in further improvements of this breeding pool.
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Optimizing Traditional Cropping Systems Under Climate Change: A Case of Maize Landraces and Bambara Groundnut
Vimbayi G. P. Chimonyo,Eranga M. Wimalasiri,Richard Kunz,Albert T. Modi,Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi +4 more
TL;DR: It is hypothesized that intercropping maize landraces with bambara groundnut, together with optimum management strategies, can improve productivity and water use efficiency (WUE) under climate change.
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Modeling Climate Warming Impacts on Grain and Forage Sorghum Yields in Argentina
Magdalena Druille,Amber S. Williams,Marcelo Torrecillas,Sumin Kim,Norman Meki,James R. Kiniry +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the Agricultural Land Management Alternatives with Numerical Assessment Criteria (ALMANAC) model to evaluate the impact of climate warming on forage and grain sorghum production in Argentina and analyze to what extent yield changes were associated with changes in water or nitrogen stress days.
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