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The role of potassium in drought tolerance

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Title The role of potassium in drought tolerance
 
Creator Saxena, N P
 
Subject Fertilizer Appications
 
Description Water stress effect9 are severe in semi.arid enr!rgrqen:s vrhere drought5 are
unpred~ctablea nd cause ins:ab,lin, in 'produclmn Eltons are be~ngm ade :c ,mprove
drought tolerance by plant breeding but 11 will be some rime before a wl.
ution is found.
Studies of the role of potassium in water uptake and the regulation of 11s loss
through stomata1 control In controlled e&pertmenls and f~sldo tud~eso f veld
response to potassium in limiting soil water e~viroirrentsin dicate that it ray
improve water relationsof plants and water use etfic~encya nd maintain y~eldsu n.
der water strw. Funher study is needed of the effects of potassium in relation to
drought in field experiments under diverse agroclimatic conditions on roils de.
ficirnt and suffic~enti n potassium. Attention should be paid to the econorrics ol
potassium reyMnse under drought conditions
 
Publisher International Potash Institute
 
Date 1985
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4127/1/CP_174.pdf
Saxena, N P (1985) The role of potassium in drought tolerance. Potash Review (5). pp. 1-15.