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Applications of Gene-Editing Technologies in Enhancing Crop Stress Resistance with Emphasis on Rice. [PDF]

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Sun M   +7 more
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DROUGHT; INFLUENCE OF DROUGHT IN AGRICULTURE AND MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR DROUGHT-A REVIEW

Asian Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology & Environmental Sciences, 2023
Drought is one of the major stress factors affecting the growth and development of plants. In this context, drought-related losses of crop plant productivity impede sustainable agriculture all over the world. In general, plants respond to water deficits by multiple physiological and metabolic adaptations at the molecular, cellular, and organism levels.
KARAN VERMA   +5 more
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Intercomparison of Agricultural Drought Monitoring Products

2021 9th International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics (Agro-Geoinformatics), 2021
Agricultural drought is a significant factor in impacting the agricultural yield. It is a big challenge to monitor agricultural drought as it is an abstract concept rather than a measurable variable. A lot of models are invented to capture the sign of its traces. The pros and cons of each product varies case by case.
Ziheng Sun, Liping Di
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Agricultural Drought in Indonesia

2005
Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world and comprises 5 main islands and about 30 smaller archipelagos. In total, there are 13,667 islands and islets, of which approximately 6,000 are inhabited. The estimated area of the Republic of Indonesia is 5,193,250 km2, which consists of a land territory of slightly more than 2,000,000 km2 and a sea ...
Rizaldi Boer, Arjunapermal R. Subbiah
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Agricultural Drought in Vietnam

2005
Vietnam is located between 8°22'N and 23°22'N latitude and between 102°10'E and 109°21'E longtitude. The country has a geographical area > 333,000 km2 and a coastline > 3000 km long. Vietnam is situated in the typhoon center of the East Sea (Bien Dong), which is one of the five largest typhoon centers of the world, and it has a complicated ...
Nguyen van Viet, Vijendra K. Boken
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Agricultural Drought in Bangladesh

2005
Bangladesh is globally known as a flood-vulnerable country—an almost flat land with too much water. In terms of annual per capita availability of water resources, it ranks among the highest in the world. But a lesserknown disaster that affects a significant proportion of its fertile land is drought.
Ahsan U. Ahmed, Anwar Iqbal
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Risk prediction of agricultural drought in China

2010 Seventh International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, 2010
This paper analyzes the occurrence regularity of agricultural drought affected area during 1978–2006 in China. It is shown that China will be in the state of agricultural drought in a long term, and the degree of disaster caused by drought will be exacerbated.
Zaiwu Gong, Ruiling Sun, Lianshui Li
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Capability of existing drought indices in reflecting agricultural drought in China

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 2020
<p>A variety of drought indices have been constructed to monitor agricultural drought using ground and satellite data. Our study aimed to evaluate the performance of drought indices to indicate agricultural drought in China. Seven drought indices of four types were selected over the main agricultural regions of China: indices ...
Zhe Zhao, Kaicun Wang
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Agricultural Drought in Ethiopia

2005
In Ethiopia, 85% of the population is engaged in agriculture (CSA, 1999). Agriculture supplies a significant proportion of the raw materials for the agro-industries, and accounts for 52% of the gross product and 90% of the export earnings. A wide range of climatic, ecological, and socioeconomic diversities influence Ethiopian agriculture.
Engida Mersha, Vijendra K. Boken
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