A guide to the CIMMYT crop management and physiology subprogram


Book Description

Strategic plan; External program review (EPR); Five-year plan; Currentactivities; Future issues; Acknowledgments; History of wheat crop management and physiology research (CMP) at CIMMYT/Mexico; Background; Evolution of CMP research objectives; Achievements; Research highlights; Support to trial and nursery management; Investigations of the agronomy of new materials; Development of screening techniques for abiotic stresses; Interface with agronomy and pathology; On-farm trials; Nitrogen trials; Organic and inorganic fertilization of wheat; Drought responses; Physiology of yield potential; Heat stress responses; Present focus of CMP strategic research at CIMMYT; Component agronomy; Sustainability of major wheat cropping systems; Pakistan: a foundation for strategic research; Rice-wheat system: the CIMMYT CMP wheat program in South Asia; Soybean-wheat system: Southern cone; Sustaining wheat cropping systems of tropical highlands: a case study of wheat-maize in MexicoSupport to breeding; Physiology and agronomy of wheat grown in environments with supra-optimal temperatures (ME5); Morpho-physiological traits of adaptation in wheat; Agronomic support for management of CIMMYT wheat program trials and nurseries at experiment stations in Mexico, Adaptive crop management research; East Africa cereals program-wheat; Bangladesh wheat program; Crop management research (CMR) training; Types of courses.



















Evaluation of membrane thermostability and canopy temperature depression as screening traits for heat tolerance in wheat


Book Description

Membrane thermostability; Heat acclimation and sampling procedures; Heat treatment and conductometric measurements; Comparison of seedlings versus field-grown plants; Comparison of acclimation of attached versus detached leaves; Correlation of MT with performance in target environments; Canopy temperature depression; Growing conditions; Canopy temperature measurements; Stomatal conductance; Stomatal density; Statistics; Physical environment; Canopy temperature; Stomatal conductance; Stomatal density; Stage of development; Time of day; Irrigation; Interactions among factors; Physiological basis.