Breeding drought-tolerant pearl millet using conventional and genomic approaches: Achievements and prospects

RK Srivastava, OP Yadav, S Kaliamoorthy… - Frontiers in plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] is a C4 crop cultivated for its grain and stover in
crop-livestock-based rain-fed farming systems of tropics and subtropics in the Indian …

High-temperature and drought stress effects on growth, yield and nutritional quality with transpiration response to vapor pressure deficit in lentil

N El Haddad, H Choukri, ME Ghanem, A Smouni… - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
High temperature and water deficit are among the major limitations reducing lentil (Lens
culinaris Medik.) yield in many growing regions. In addition, increasing atmospheric vapor …

Optimizing crop water use for drought and climate change adaptation requires a multi-scale approach

JD Burridge, A Grondin, V Vadez - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Selection criteria that co-optimize water use efficiency and yield are needed to promote plant
productivity in increasingly challenging and variable drought scenarios, particularly dryland …

Time series forecasting of univariate agrometeorological data: a comparative performance evaluation via one-step and multi-step ahead forecasting strategies

S Suradhaniwar, S Kar, SS Durbha, A Jagarlapudi - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
High-frequency monitoring of agrometeorological parameters is quintessential in the domain
of Precision Agriculture (PA), where timeliness of collected observations and the ability to …

An ensemble machine learning approach for determination of the optimum sampling time for evapotranspiration assessment from high-throughput phenotyping data

S Kar, VK Purbey, S Suradhaniwar, LB Korbu… - … and Electronics in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Efficient selection of drought-tolerant crops requires identification and high-throughput
phenotyping (HTP) of the complex functional (especially canopy-conductance) traits that …

Physiological and genetic control of transpiration efficiency in African rice, Oryza glaberrima Steud

P Affortit, B Effa-Effa, MS Ndoye… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Improving crop water use efficiency, the amount of carbon assimilated as biomass per unit of
water used by a plant, is of major importance as water for agriculture becomes scarcer. In …

Monitoring of drought stress and transpiration rate using proximal thermal and hyperspectral imaging in an indoor automated plant phenotyping platform

S Mertens, L Verbraeken, H Sprenger, S De Meyer… - Plant Methods, 2023 - Springer
Background Thermography is a popular tool to assess plant water-use behavior, as plant
temperature is influenced by transpiration rate, and is commonly used in field experiments to …

Soil water content and vapor pressure deficit affect ecosystem water use efficiency through different pathways

L Wang, Y Li, X Zhang, K Chen, KHM Siddique - Journal of Hydrology, 2024 - Elsevier
Ecosystem water use efficiency (WUE) quantifies the amount of carbon assimilated per unit
of water consumed and elucidates the trade-off between water loss and carbon gain at the …

Spatial and temporal variation characteristics of extreme hydrometeorological events in the Yellow River Basin and their effects on vegetation

M Song, X Jiang, Y Lei, Y Zhao, W Cai - Natural Hazards, 2023 - Springer
Extreme hydrometeorological events have an effect on the growth of vegetation worldwide.
Here, we used China's Yellow River Basin to deeply explore the temporal and spatial trends …

Interactions between Diffuse Light and Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) Canopy Structure, Simulations of Light Interception in Virtual Canopies

Y Zhang, J Yang, M Van Haaften, L Li, S Lu, W Wen… - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Plant photosynthesis and biomass production are associated with the amount of intercepted
light, especially the light distribution inside the canopy. Three virtual canopies (n= 80, 3.25 …