Pearl millet is highly resilient to some of the driest areas of the world, like the Sahel area or fringes of the Thar desert in India. Despite this, there is a wealth of variation in pearl millet genotypes for their adaptation to drought and the object of this paper was to review some related work in the past 25 years to harness these capacities toward the breeding of better adapted cultivars. ...

CONSTANS (CO)-like genes have been intensively investigated for their roles in the regulation of photoperiodic flowering, but very limited information has been reported on their functions in other biological processes. Here, we found that a CO-like gene, Ghd2 (Grain number, plant height, and heading date2), which can increase the yield potential under normal growth condition just like its homol...

in order to determine the optimum planting date under deficit output area, this research was carried-out in 2010-11 and 2011-12 cropping seasons, in split-plot arrangement, using complete randomized block design with three replications in khuzestan agriculture and natural resource research center. main and sub plots were consisted of four planting dates (oct. 27 with 10 days interval) and four ...

Abstract Rice is a strategic commodity for Indonesia. NPK fertilizer compound with fast absorption, accelerates flowering, fruiting, flowering process and stimulates shoot growth. The pest that often attacks rice Leptocorisa acuta which sucks the grain in ripening phase until it empty or filling not full, resulting decrease production. This study used non-factorial Randomized Block Design 8 rep...

The accuracy prediction for the crop yield is conducive to food security in regions and/or nations. To some extent, model yields combining mechanism with statistical regression (SRM) can improve timeliness and robustness of final prediction. In this study, accumulated biomass (AB) simulated by Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (APSIM) multiple climate indices (e.g., suitability extreme ...