Transpiration increases under high‐temperature stress: Potential mechanisms, trade‐offs and prospects for crop resilience in a warming world

W Sadok, JR Lopez, KP Smith - Plant, Cell & Environment, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The frequency and intensity of high‐temperature stress events are expected to increase as
climate change intensifies. Concomitantly, an increase in evaporative demand, driven in part …

[HTML][HTML] History, current status, and prospects of soybean production and research in sub-Saharan Africa

DM Khojely, SE Ibrahim, E Sapey, T Han - The Crop Journal, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) is a non-native and non-staple crop in sub-
Saharan Africa (SSA) with potential to be a commercial crop owing to its wide range of uses …

Screening diverse soybean genotypes for drought tolerance by membership function value based on multiple traits and drought-tolerant coefficient of yield

C Yan, S Song, W Wang, C Wang, H Li, F Wang, S Li… - BMC Plant …, 2020 - Springer
Background Drought is a major limiting factor seriously influencing worldwide soybean
production and its impact on yield, morphological and physiological traits depend on the …

Limited‐transpiration trait may increase maize drought tolerance in the US Corn Belt

CD Messina, TR Sinclair, GL Hammer… - Agronomy …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Yield loss due to water deficit is ubiquitous in maize (Zea mays L.) production environments
in the United States. The impact of water deficits on yield depends on the cropping system …

Estimation of soybean grain yield from multispectral high-resolution UAV data with machine learning models in West Africa

TR Alabi, AT Abebe, G Chigeza… - … Applications: Society and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) is a leguminous and oil crop with rapidly growing
importance and demand in Africa following the increasing demand for oil and livestock and …

Physiological phenotyping of plants for crop improvement

ME Ghanem, H Marrou, TR Sinclair - Trends in Plant Science, 2015 - cell.com
Future progress in crop breeding requires a new emphasis in plant physiological
phenotyping for specific, well-defined traits. Success in physiological phenotyping to identify …

Limited-transpiration response to high vapor pressure deficit in crop species

TR Sinclair, J Devi, A Shekoofa, S Choudhary… - Plant Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Water deficit under nearly all field conditions is the major constraint on plant yields. Other
than empirical observations, very little progress has been made in developing crop plants in …

The emerging soybean production frontier in Southern Africa: conservation challenges and the role of south‐south telecouplings

NI Gasparri, T Kuemmerle, P Meyfroidt… - Conservation …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Soybean expansion has been a strong driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss in South
America (SAM). Here, we highlight strong similarities in environmental, institutional, and …

The significance of soybean production in the face of changing climates in Africa

B Siamabele - Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The paper is aimed at reviewing literature on the significance of soybeans production in the
face of the changing climates in Africa. Using literature from the secondary sources, the …

Accelerating genetic gains in legumes for the development of prosperous smallholder agriculture: integrating genomics, phenotyping, systems modelling and …

RK Varshney, M Thudi, MK Pandey… - Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Grain legumes form an important component of the human diet, provide feed for livestock,
and replenish soil fertility through biological nitrogen fixation. Globally, the demand for food …