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Plant Biomass Productivity Under Abiotic Stresses in SAT Agriculture

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Title Plant Biomass Productivity Under Abiotic Stresses in SAT Agriculture
 
Creator Krishnamurthy, L
Zaman-Allah, M
Purushothaman, R
Irshad Ahmed, M
Vadez, V
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description The semi-arid tropics (SAT) include parts of 48 countries in the developing world: in most of
India, locations in south east Asia, a swathe across sub-Saharan Africa, much of southern
and eastern Africa, and a few locations in Latin America (Fig 1). Semi-arid tropical regions
are characterized by unpredictable weather, long dry seasons, inconsistent rainfall, and soils
that are poor in nutrients. Sorghum, millet, cowpea, chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut are
the vital crops that feed the poor people living in the SAT.
Environmental stresses represent the most limiting factors for agricultural productivity.
Apart from biotic stresses caused by plant pathogens, there are a number of abiotic stresses
such as extremes temperatures, drought, salinity and radiation which all have detrimental
effects on plant growth and yield, especially when several occur together (Mittler 2006).
 
Publisher InTech
 
Contributor Matovic, D
 
Date 2011
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/1312/1/lk1.pdf
Krishnamurthy, L and Zaman-Allah, M and Purushothaman, R and Irshad Ahmed, M and Vadez, V (2011) Plant Biomass Productivity Under Abiotic Stresses in SAT Agriculture. In: Biomass - Detection, Production and Usage. InTech, pp. 247-264. ISBN 978-953-307-492-4