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Fitting Crop Genotypes To Abiotic Stress Environments : Problems And Prospects

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Title Fitting Crop Genotypes To Abiotic Stress Environments : Problems And Prospects
 
Creator Seetharama, N
Soman, P
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Plant breeding efforts have substantially increased yields mainly of crops grown
under (near) optimum conditions, especially during the last half century. This,
with or without deliberate efforts, has resulted in an increase in adaptability of cullivars
and stability of grain yields, even in abiotic stress environments. In order to
ensure nutritional security for the growing population, especially in the tropics with
its dwindling and degraded land resources, we constantly need newer crop production
tzchnologies. Even in highly developed temperate agricultural systems, 60 to 80%
of the seasonal variation in crop productivity is attributed to weather fluctuations
(Thompson 1975; Boye 1082). In the tropics where the intensification of crop production
and extension of crops to more margrnal areas are the order of the day, iticrcased
research on crop productivity, especially in stress environments is callcd for.
 
Date 1987
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4512/1/CP_466.pdf
Seetharama, N and Soman, P (1987) Fitting Crop Genotypes To Abiotic Stress Environments : Problems And Prospects. In: Proceedings of Regional Seminar on Innovative Ideas in Plant Research, 3-4, Dec, 1987, HAU, Hisar.