eprintid: 7070
rev_number: 12
eprint_status: archive
userid: 128
dir: disk0/00/00/70/70
datestamp: 2013-08-27 11:20:28
lastmod: 2013-08-27 11:25:07
status_changed: 2013-08-27 11:20:28
type: book_section
metadata_visibility: show
contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@cgiar.org
creators_name: Wani, S P
icrisatcreators_name: Wani, S P
affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru)
country: India
title: Jatropha (Jatropha curcas L.)
ispublished: pub
subjects: s2.9
full_text_status: restricted
keywords: Biodiesel, Biofuel
abstract: The claim of jatropha (Jatropha curcas) being a wonder plant is based on its perceived ability to grow successfully in semi-arid environmental conditions and on degraded soils. This chapter describes the (i) plant root traits and their significance for drought tolerance; (ii) jatropha plantations' impact on hydrological processes (water balance, sediment transport and soil loss) and soil and environmental quality (carbon and nutrient sequestration and soil biology in the plant rhizosphere); (iii) cultivation including vegetative propagation, application of fertilizers and growth regulators, pruning, insect pests and diseases, intercropping, and seed yield; and (iv) genetic improvement involving assessment of variability in jatropha accessions using molecular markers. The factors controlling up-scaling of jatropha cultivation are also discussed.
date: 2013
date_type: published
publisher: CABI
place_of_pub: Nosworthy Way
pagerange: 312-338
pages: 548
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-1845938857
book_title: Biofuel Crops: Production, Physiology and Genetics
editors_name: Singh, B P
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781845938857.0312
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related_url_type: pub
citation:   Wani, S P  (2013) Jatropha (Jatropha curcas L.).   In:  Biofuel Crops: Production, Physiology and Genetics.   CABI, Nosworthy Way, pp. 312-338.  ISBN 978-1845938857     
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