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Response of Sorghum and Pearl Millet to Drought Stress in Semi-Arid India

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Title Response of Sorghum and Pearl Millet to Drought Stress in Semi-Arid India
 
Creator Seetharama, N
Mahalakshmi, V
Bidinger, F R
Singh, S
 
Subject Millets
 
Description The wide range of environments in which sorghum and pearl millet are grown in semi-arid India
can be grouped as variable, optimum (or near-optimum), and stored soil moisture types.
Variations in specific plant responses such as phenology, leaf area development, root growth,
and water-use efficiency under these three types of environments are discussed. Sorghum and
millet are contrasted for their response to a variable moisture environment, and the response of
sorghum grown under stored moisture during the postrainy season to terminal stress is
described. Finally the role of timing, intensity, and duration of stress on grain yield is examined.
Breeding and management strategies for obtaining consistently high grain yields should fully
take into account specific plant responses to the basic environment to which research is
directed.
 
Date 1984
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/5147/1/0132.pdf
Seetharama, N and Mahalakshmi, V and Bidinger, F R and Singh, S (1984) Response of Sorghum and Pearl Millet to Drought Stress in Semi-Arid India. In: Agrometeorology of Sorghum and Millet in the Semi-Arid Tropics: Proceedings of the International Symposium, 15-20 November, 1982, Patancheru. A P lndla.