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Sorghum mitigates climate variability and change on crop yield and quality

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/12768/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00425-021-03631-2
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-021-03631-2
 
Title Sorghum mitigates climate variability and change on crop yield and quality
 
Creator Chadalavada, K
Kumari, B D R
Kumar, T S
 
Subject Crop Improvement
Sorghum
Climate Change
Food Security
 
Description Climate change effects immensely disturb the global agricultural systems by reducing crop production. Changes
in extreme weather and climate events such as high-temperature episodes and extreme rainfalls events, droughts, flooding adversely affect the production of staple food crops, posing threat to ecosystem resilience. The resulting crop losses lead to food insecurity and poverty and question the sustainable livelihoods of small farmer communities, particularly in developing countries. In view of this, it is essential to focus and adapt climate-resilient food crops which need lower inputs and produce sustainable yields through various biotic and abiotic stress-tolerant traits. Sorghum, “the camel of cereals”, is one such climate-resilient food crop that is less sensitive to climate change vulnerabilities and also an important staple food in many
parts of Asia and Africa. It is a rainfed crop and provides many essential nutrients. Understanding sorghum’s sensitivity to climate change provides scope for improvement of the crop both in terms of quantity and quality and alleviates food and feed security in future climate change scenarios. Thus, the current review focused on understanding the sensitivity of sorghum crop to various stress events due to climate change and throws light on different crop improvement strategies available to pave the way for climate-smart agriculture.
 
Publisher Springer
 
Date 2021-04-29
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/12768/1/Planta_253_1-19_2021.pdf
Chadalavada, K and Kumari, B D R and Kumar, T S (2021) Sorghum mitigates climate variability and change on crop yield and quality. Planta (TSI), 253. pp. 1-19. ISSN 0032-0935