Crop adaptation and improvement for drought-prone environments

Kane Ndjido Ardo, Foncéka Daniel, Dalton Timothy J.. 2022. Crop adaptation and improvement for drought-prone environments. Manhattan : New Prairie Press, 547 p. ISBN 978-1-944548-47-6

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Résumé : This book focuses on three important elements in the development of cereal and legume crops in semi-arid West Africa. The first section illustrates the socioeconomic factors that affect the food system for these crops and contains an overview of crop production and consumption in the region. Then, important inputs that affect system productivity are presented: preferences for new seed varieties, yield response to fertilizer, counterfeit herbicides, climate information, and the way farmers develop expectations about the weather events that shape cropping outcomes. The final chapter of section one is dedicated to understanding urban consumer preferences for processed food products derived from pearl millet. The second section addresses the state of the art of phenotyping and the modeling of crop adaptation to dryland farming systems. Chapters in section two focus on the regional network for phenotyping, high throughput phenotyping in field situations, root architectures, and crop ideotypes. In addition, empirical evidence is presented on root and soil interactions and the effectiveness of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs to assess sorghum physiology. Finally, the third section investigates the genetic diversity and improvement of dryland crops. Chapters in this section focus on biodiversity and agricultural system sustainability, orphan crops such as fonio, and the utilization of a regional germplasm collection in the improvement of cowpea, groundnut, pearl millet, and sorghum.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : plante de culture, adaptation physiologique, zone aride

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Afrique occidentale

Classification Agris : F01 - Culture des plantes
F60 - Physiologie et biochimie végétale
F30 - Génétique et amélioration des plantes

Champ stratégique Cirad : CTS 2 (2019-) - Transitions agroécologiques

Agences de financement hors UE : United States Agency for International Development

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