Book Title: Crop Adaptation and Improvement for Drought-Prone Environments

Authors: Editors: Ndjido A. Kane, Daniel Foncéka, and Timothy J. Dalton

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This book focuses on three important elements in the development of cereal and legume crops in semi-arid West Africa. The first section illustrates the socioeconomic factors that affect the food system for these crops and contains an overview of crop production and consumption in the region. Then, important inputs that affect system productivity are presented: preferences for new seed varieties, yield response to fertilizer, counterfeit herbicides, climate information, and the way farmers develop expectations about the weather events that shape cropping outcomes. The final chapter of section one is dedicated to understanding urban consumer preferences for processed food products derived from pearl millet.

The second section addresses the state of the art of phenotyping and the modeling of crop adaptation to dryland farming systems. Chapters in section two focus on the regional network for phenotyping, high throughput phenotyping in field situations, root architectures, and crop ideotypes. In addition, empirical evidence is presented on root and soil interactions and the effectiveness of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs to assess sorghum physiology.

Finally, the third section investigates the genetic diversity and improvement of dryland crops. Chapters in this section focus on biodiversity and agricultural system sustainability, orphan crops such as fonio, and the utilization of a regional germplasm collection in the improvement of cowpea, groundnut, pearl millet, and sorghum.

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Editors: Ndjido A. Kane, Daniel Foncéka, and Timothy J. Dalton

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Title
Crop Adaptation and Improvement for Drought-Prone Environments
Authors
Editors: Ndjido A. Kane, Daniel Foncéka, and Timothy J. Dalton
Editors
Ndjido A. Kane; Daniel Foncéka; and Timothy J. Dalton
Reviewers
Jacques Martin Faye; Christine Granier; Laura Grégoire; Steven Haggblade; Manzamasso Hodjo; Tebila Nakelse; Jean–François Rami; Hannah Schneider; Melinda Smale; Veronique Theriault; Edgar Twine; and Vincent Vadez
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Crop Adaptation and Improvement for Drought-Prone Environments Copyright © 2022 by Editors: Ndjido A. Kane, Daniel Foncéka, and Timothy J. Dalton is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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Editors: Ndjido A. Kane, Daniel Foncéka, and Timothy J. Dalton
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Cover image courtesy of: Alain Audebert (CIRAD), August 2021.

Farmers fields with millet and groundnut grown in rotation in a Faidherbia albida park located in the Groundnut Basin (Niakhar, Senegal).

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Electronic edition available online at: http://newprairiepress.org/ebooks/49

Digital Version ISBN: 978-1-944548-46-9
Paperback Book ISBN: 978-1-944548-47-6

Publisher
New Prairie Press
Publication Date
December 23, 2022
Ebook ISBN
978-1-944548-46-9
Print ISBN
978-1-944548-47-6