Yield and water relations of pearl millet genotypes under irrigated and nonirrigated conditions

Singh, P and Kanemasu, E T and Singh, Phool (1983) Yield and water relations of pearl millet genotypes under irrigated and nonirrigated conditions. Agronomy Journal , 75 (6). pp. 886-890. ISSN 0002-1962

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Abstract

In the six cultivars and four hybrids of Pennisetum americanum studied, grain yield was found to be significantly correlated with average afternoon leaf diffusion resistance of the abaxial surface (LDRab) under irrigated (r = -0.90) and nonirrigated (r = -0.72) field conditions

Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	UNSPECIFIED
CRP:	UNSPECIFIED
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Drought resistance, Leaf water potentials, Leaf osmotic potentials, Stem osmotic potentials, Water use, Penniseium umericunum (L.) Leeke, Drought screening
Subjects:	Mandate crops > Millets
Depositing User:	Ms K Syamalamba
Date Deposited:	04 Nov 2011 09:09
Last Modified:	04 Nov 2011 09:09
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/3652
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.2134/agronj1983.0002196200750...
Projects:	UNSPECIFIED
Funders:	INTSORMIL Program
Acknowledgement:	The INTSORMIL Program at Kansas State Univ. provided financial support and the Evapotranspiration Laboratory, Dep. of Agronomy, Kansas, the facilities to carry out this work; W.D. Stegmeier (Fort Hays Experiment Station, Hays, Kans.) provided pearl millet seeds used. The senior author (PS) gratefully acknowledges ICRISAT (India) for the grant of study leave
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