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041 _aeng
082 _a633.1892 SAX
100 1 _932317
_aSaxena, N.P.
_eeditor
245 1 0 _aField screening for drought tolerance in crop plants with emphasis on rice
260 _aAndhra Pradesh (India) :
_bICRISAT,
_c2002.
300 _avii, 200 pages
520 _aThere are two options for the management of crops in water limiting environments: the agronomic and the genetic management. With the genetic management option droughttolerant varieties, once developed, would be a low economic input technology that would be readily acceptable to resource-poor, rainfed, small land holding farmers. Development of this genetic management technology requires robust, reproducible, simple, and rapid f ield, pot, and laboratory screening methods for identification of traits of drought tolerance in germplasm, and incorporation of the same in high-yielding varieties using conventional and biotechnological tools. Scientists working in various national and international crop drought research programs use different methods of screening appropriate to the crops on which they work, and keeping in view their target drought environment. This workshop focused on the methods used in different cereal (including rice) and legume crops. The rationale for the use of various methods and their advantages and disadvantages (if any) were discussed. Papers contributed by the participants, either as ful l papers or only abstracts of their paper, are included in this book. An overview and synthesis of the workshop and crop drought research in general is presented in the final chapter of the book.
546 _aText in English
650 7 _2AGROVOC
_91082
_aDrought tolerance
650 7 _2AGROVOC
_91243
_aRice
650 7 _aCrops
_2AGROVOC
_91069
650 7 _aMarker-assisted selection
_2AGROVOC
_910737
650 7 _2AGROVOC
_98057
_aAgricultural research for development
700 1 _913315
_aO'Toole, J.C.
_eeditor
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