Innovations in Dryland Agriculture
252 based on the availability of land, water, finances, labour and machinery, and signals from the environment (e.g. climate, ma ...
253 unprecedented change such as climate change or when new technologies are pre- sented to traditional farmers). This is becaus ...
254 References Anwar AE, Rodriguez D, Liu C, Power S, O’Leary GJ (2008) Quality and potential utility of ENSO-based forecasts of ...
255 Lobell DB, Cassman KG, Field CB (2009) Crop yield gaps: their importance, magnitudes and causes. Annu Rev Environ Resour 34: ...
256 Sadras VO, Angus JF (2006) Benchmarking water use efficiency of rainfed wheat in dry environ- ments. Aust J Agric Res 57 :84 ...
© Springer International Publishing AG 2016 257 M. Farooq, K.H.M. Siddique (eds.), Innovations in Dryland Agriculture, DOI 10.10 ...
258 Drought and heat are worldwide problems in drylands. What makes planning against drought difficult is that the farmers and r ...
259 affects protein content, dough quality, and decrease glutenin to gliadin ratio (Blumenthal et al. 1995 ). A regional plant g ...
260 than high-yielding modern cultivars (assuming that high-yielding cultivars are more sensitive to stresses than their traditi ...
261 wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) yield potential and its physiological determinants has been widely studied in many reports (Mot ...
262 Many cereals landraces are being tested by several institutions around the world to identify new potential genes/alleles for ...
263 rate, and intercellular carbon dioxide are associated with drought tolerance (Sohail et al. 2011 ). On the other hand, wild ...
264 The secondary gene pool of wheat contains polyploid species that share at least one homologous genome with the cultivated ty ...
265 East Asia around 2000 B.C., North and South America in the 1500s A.C. (Heiser 1990 ) and Oceania in the late 1700s A.C. (Mac ...
266 translocation, also novel rust resistance genes were incorporated into the wheat genepool (McIntosh et al. 1995 ). Perennial ...
267 wide use of Mega-varieties or varieties covering wide extensions and used mas- sively as parents for future varieties may ha ...
268 (Singh et al. 1989 ; Pukhalskiy and Bilinskaya 1998 ; Pukhalskiy et al. 2000 ). Recently, studies have been conducted for tr ...
269 its own range of variation. Manipulating a single trait, disregarding all others, is relatively straightforward; however, th ...
270 its prevailing environmental conditions (exploitation of specific adaptation) or of genotypes with low frequency of poor yie ...
271 date or yield (Hernandez-Segundo et al. 2009 ), and (iii) stress index determined with crop models (Chapman et al. 2000 ). 7 ...
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