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Phenotyping chickpeas and pigeonpeas for adaptation to drought

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Title Phenotyping chickpeas and pigeonpeas for adaptation to drought
 
Creator Upadhyaya, H D
Kashiwagi, J
Varshney, R K
Gaur, P M
Saxena, K B
Krishnamurthy, L
Gowda, C L L
Pundir, R P S
Chaturvedi, S K
Basu, P S
Singh, I P
 
Subject Chickpea
Pigeonpea
 
Description Importance of chickpeas and pigeonpeas
in the human diet
Chickpeas (Cicer arietinum L) are the fourth largest
grain legume crop in the world, with a total production
of 9.2 million tons from an area of 11.2 million ha and
a productivity of 0.82t ha1 (Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2005).
Large variations in chickpea yield are reported, ranging
from 0.35t ha1 in Iran to 1.6t ha1 in Mexico. Chickpea
productivity records in the last four decades reveal an
interesting trend: productivity consistently increased in
India and Mexico while it declined in Turkey, Pakistan
and Iran...
 
Publisher Generation Challenge Programme
 
Contributor Monneveux, P
Ribaut, Jean-Marcel
 
Date 2010
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/1376/1/PhenotypingChickpeasAndPigeonpeas.pdf
Upadhyaya, H D and Kashiwagi, J and Varshney, R K and Gaur, P M and Saxena, K B and Krishnamurthy, L and Gowda, C L L and Pundir, R P S and Chaturvedi, S K and Basu, P S and Singh, I P (2010) Phenotyping chickpeas and pigeonpeas for adaptation to drought. In: Drought phenotyping in crops: from theory to practice. Generation Challenge Programme, pp. 347-355.