Sugar beet is considered a high water-consuming crop. While available water resources for agriculture consumption are declining, concerns about the potential impact of climate change on crop yield and associated production costs raise the question of the future economic sustainability of the sugar beet crop. Drought negatively affects not only yield, but also the rate of sugar extraction. In this work the importance of wild beet germplasm in future breeding programs for drought tolerance is discussed.
Drought adaptive traits for sugar beet improvement
STEVANATO, PIERGIORGIO;CONCHERI, GIUSEPPE;
2011
Abstract
Sugar beet is considered a high water-consuming crop. While available water resources for agriculture consumption are declining, concerns about the potential impact of climate change on crop yield and associated production costs raise the question of the future economic sustainability of the sugar beet crop. Drought negatively affects not only yield, but also the rate of sugar extraction. In this work the importance of wild beet germplasm in future breeding programs for drought tolerance is discussed.
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