Crop Adaptation and Improvement for Drought-Prone Environments
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Download Chapter 1 Production and Consumption Trends of Dryland Staples in CORAF Nations (5.7 MB)
Download Chapter 2 Assessment of Farmers’ Groundnut Varietal Trait Preferences and Production Constraints in the Groundnut Basin of Senegal (5.1 MB)
Download Chapter 3 Yield Response of Dryland Cereals to Fertilizer on Smallholder Farms in Mali (4.4 MB)
Download Chapter 4 Counterfeit Herbicides, Productivity and Family Labor Use on Farms in Mali: A Multivalued Treatment Approach (5.0 MB)
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Download Chapter 8 Agro-physiological Responses of 10 West Africa Sorghum Varieties to Early Water Deficit Assessed by UAV and Ground Phenotyping (4.9 MB)
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Description
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.
ISBN
Digital Version ISBN: 978-1-944548-46-9; Paperback Book ISBN: 978-1-944548-47-6
Publication Date
2022
Publisher
New Prairie Press
City
Manhattan, KS
Editor
Dr. Khady Nani Dramé, ISRA/CERAAS, Senegal & Dr. Benjamin E. Kohl, Kansas State University, USA
Keywords
production, consumption, trade, drylands staples, CORAF, Sorghum
Disciplines
Agricultural Science | Agriculture | Agronomy and Crop Sciences | Biodiversity
Recommended Citation
Kane, Ed., Ndjido A.; Foncéka, Ed., Daniel; and Dalton, Ed., Timothy J., "Crop Adaptation and Improvement for Drought-Prone Environments" (2022). NPP eBooks. 49.
https://newprairiepress.org/ebooks/49
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