Kiflemariam Yehuala Belachew

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What strategical approach do you recommend in breeding of crop plants for drought tolerance to the farmers in sub-Sharan Africa?

Climate change is over shadowing the life of the poor and continue to do so in the future as well. Sustainable agriculture is at risk specially when the farmers are poor and the technology of crop...

27 October 2018 5,003 6 View

Can there be intra-specific variation among crop plants in their way of tolerance Al3+- toxicity?

Al3+ toxicity tolerance by crop plants can be broadly categorized as exclusion and sequestration. In majority of literature I encountered tolerance by crop species is attained by one of the means...

23 November 2016 1,203 2 View

Any article stating the root and shoot Al3+ content preferably in legumes or in any other crops species?

Plant species exhibit different mechanism to tolerant the effect of Al3+-toxicity. Al3+ can also be translocated to the different parts of the plant through a pathway of other elements. Thus,...

09 June 2016 3,411 4 View

Is there any experience showing that crop plants possessing combined drought and acid-soil tolerance traits naturally? If so, any publication?

Crops evolving in drier areas could have drought tolerance traits. The same is true for crops evolving in acidic growing regions; they may possess acidity tolerance traits. However, in most of the...

22 March 2016 7,478 4 View

Could you please, suggest a method to induce drought in a hydroponic plant growing media?

Drought is attributed for meager water supply in which plants are in a position unable to absorb water from the soil. The reason can be osmotic stress (due to solute accumulation) or due to lack...

29 August 2015 1,073 14 View