eprintid: 1312
rev_number: 11
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datestamp: 2011-09-12 03:39:07
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creators_name: Krishnamurthy, L
creators_name: Zaman-Allah, M
creators_name: Purushothaman, R
creators_name: Irshad Ahmed, M
creators_name: Vadez, V
icrisatcreators_name: Krishnamurthy, L
icrisatcreators_name: Zaman-Allah, M
icrisatcreators_name: Purushothaman, R
icrisatcreators_name: Irshad Ahmed, M
icrisatcreators_name: Vadez, V
affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru)
country: India
title: Plant Biomass Productivity Under Abiotic Stresses in SAT Agriculture 
ispublished: pub
subjects: s2.4
full_text_status: public
abstract: The semi-arid tropics (SAT) include parts of 48 countries in the developing world: in most of
India, locations in south east Asia, a swathe across sub-Saharan Africa, much of southern
and eastern Africa, and a few locations in Latin America (Fig 1). Semi-arid tropical regions
are characterized by unpredictable weather, long dry seasons, inconsistent rainfall, and soils
that are poor in nutrients. Sorghum, millet, cowpea, chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut are
the vital crops that feed the poor people living in the SAT.
Environmental stresses represent the most limiting factors for agricultural productivity.
Apart from biotic stresses caused by plant pathogens, there are a number of abiotic stresses
such as extremes temperatures, drought, salinity and radiation which all have detrimental
effects on plant growth and yield, especially when several occur together (Mittler 2006).
date: 2011
publisher: InTech
pagerange: 247-264
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-953-307-492-4
book_title: Biomass - Detection, Production and Usage
editors_name: Matovic, D
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citation:   Krishnamurthy, L and Zaman-Allah, M and Purushothaman, R and Irshad Ahmed, M and Vadez, V  (2011) Plant Biomass Productivity Under Abiotic Stresses in SAT Agriculture.   In:  Biomass - Detection, Production and Usage.   InTech, pp. 247-264.  ISBN 978-953-307-492-4     
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