Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend breeding for multi stage drought resilience to sustain rainfed yield.
- Taxon
- Cowpea
Vigna unguiculatat0 - Outcome
- breeding for a multi‐stage drought‐resilient genotypee0
- Qualifier
- under rainfed conditionse0
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Verbatim
e0“breeding for a multi‐stage drought‐resilient genotype is needed to sustain yield under rainfed conditions”
t0“Cowpea”
Title
Sujan Poudel; Lekshmy V. Sankarapillai; Bikash Adhikari; et al. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 2025. doi:10.1111/jac.70086
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Drought affected gas exchange more at vegetative than reproductive stages.
- Intervention effect Photosynthesis fell 86% under drought at the vegetative stage.
- Intervention effect Photosynthesis fell 68% under drought at the reproductive stage.
- Intervention effect Chlorophyll index declined 54% at R4.
- Intervention effect Chlorophyll index showed no significant change under drought at V2.
- Intervention effect Drought at R1 reduced seed yield 46%.
- Intervention effect Drought reduced seed yield 35% at R4.
- Intervention effect Drought reduced seed yield 33% at V2.
- Intervention effect Drought reduced seed yield 27% at V4.
- Association At R1, yield reduction correlated with an 82% drop in stomatal conductance.
- Association At R1, yield reduction correlated with a 68% drop in photosynthesis rate.
- Association At R1, yield reduction correlated with a 44% drop in chlorophyll index.
- Association At R1, yield reduction was followed by a 3.4°C increase in leaf temperature.
- Intervention effect Reproductive stage drought increased hundred seed weight and seed protein.
- Intervention effect Reproductive stage drought decreased starch content.
- Observation Cowpea resilience ranked R1 below R4 below V2 below V4.