Crop Adaptation and Improvement for Drought-Prone Environments

by Ndjido A. Kane, Daniel Foncéka, and Timothy J. Dalton

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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 with an overview of crop production and consumption in the region. The second section addresses the state of the art of phenotyping and the modeling of crop adaptation to dryland farming systems. The third section investigates the genetic diversity and improvement of dryland crops.

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Publisher
Kansas State University
Subjects
Biology, Agriculture and Horticulture
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it
Who can read
Tweens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Socio-Economic Analysis of Dryland Crops Production
  7. 1.1: Production and Consumption Trends of Dryland Staples in CORAF Nations
  8. 1.2: Assessment of Farmers’ Groundnut Varietal Trait Preferences and Production Constraints in the Groundnut Basin of Senegal
  9. 1.3: Yield Response of Dryland Cereals to Fertilizer on Smallholder Farms in Mali
  10. 1.4: Counterfeit Herbicides, Productivity and Family Labor Use on Farms in Mali- A Multivalued Treatment Approach
  11. 1.5: Economic Risks and Uncertainties in a Context of Climate Change- Teachings on the Use of Information Systems in the Senegalese Groundnut Basin
  12. 1.6: Consumer Willingness to Pay for Millet-based Food Attributes in Niger
  13. 2: Advanced Phenotyping and Crop Modelling for Adaptation to Drylands
  14. 2.1: UAV Method Based on Multispectral Imaging for Field Phenotyping
  15. 2.2: Agro-physiological Responses of 10 West Africa Sorghum Varieties to Early Water Deficit Assessed by UAV and Ground Phenotyping
  16. 2.3: Toward a Regional Field Phenotyping Network in West Africa
  17. 2.4: High-throughput Root Phenotyping- Opportunities and Challenges for the Adaptation of Arid and Semi-arid Crops to Future Climates
  18. 2.5: Using Root-Soil Interactions in the Rhizosphere as Valuable Traits for Selection Against Drought
  19. 2.6: Designing Dual-purpose Sorghum Ideotypes for High Grain and Biomass Yields Suitable for Various Target Environments in Senegal
  20. 3: Genetic Diversity and Improvement of Dryland Crops
  21. 3.1: Biodiversity as a Cornerstone of Agrosystems’ Sustainability in West Africa
  22. 3.2: Management of Cowpea [Vigna unguiculata L. (Walp)] Germplasm Diversity in Senegal- A Crucial Asset for Breeding Programs
  23. 3.3: From Shade to Light- Fonio, an African Orphan Crop, Towards Renewed Challenges
  24. 3.4: Past, Present, and Future of West African Sorghum Improvement- Building a Roadmap for Climate-adaptive, Farmer-adopted Varieties
  25. 3.5: Modern Approaches for Sorghum Breeding in Mali
  26. 3.6: Genetic Improvement of Pearl Millet in Senegal- Past, Present and Future Prospects
  27. 3.7: Breeding for Drought Adaptation and Fresh Seed Dormancy of Groundnut in Senegal- Advances, Challenges, and Prospects
  28. Back Matter
  29. Index
  30. Glossary
  31. Detailed Licensing
  32. Detailed Licensing