drought tolerance

collocation in English

meaningsofdroughtandtolerance

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drought
noun[C or U]
uk
/draʊt/us
/draʊt/
a long period when there is little or ...
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tolerance
noun
uk
/ˈtɒl.ər.əns/us
/ˈtɑː.lɚ.əns/
willingness to accept behaviour and beliefs that are different from your own, although you might not agree with or approve ...
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(Definition ofdroughtandtolerancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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These accessions scored between 3 and 5 for proportional soil cover, used to estimatedroughttolerancein the late dry season.
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It has been improved fordroughttoleranceusing recurrent selection.
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Selection improvesdroughttolerancein tropical maize populations.
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The importance of the anthesis-silking interval in breeding fordroughttolerancein tropical maize.
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Similarly, the need fordroughttolerancein the drier temperate areas ensures a continuing agronomic role for cocksfoot and tall fescue.
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This is another important aspect ofdroughttolerance.
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In this study, both susceptible cultivars are droughtintolerant while both resistant cultivars have gooddroughttolerance.
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An evaluation of seed and seedlingdroughttolerancescreening tests in wheat.
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Recent advances in breeding fordroughttolerancein maize.
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Much of this work built on the successes of previous projects, including some of the earlier strategic research ondroughttoleranceand molecular marker technologies.
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The results indicate that exogenous glycinebetaine has the potential to improve thedroughttoleranceof leaf tobacco.
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The programme has also produced the breeding material with the highest level ofdroughttolerance.
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These are, in order of importance, grain yield, plant height, grain size,droughttoleranceand lodging resistance.
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Marker-assisted backcrossing to improvedroughttolerancein pearl millet.
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Abscisic acid as a genetic character related todroughttolerance.
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A short discussion on the optimal choice of parental lines for developing hybrids with maximum expression ofdroughttoleranceconcludes the paper.
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Methods of drought mitigation need to be investigated further, including selecting genotypes fordroughttolerance.
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It is also recognized that this is due to the complexity ofdroughttolerance, which has been found to be associated with several morpho-physiological traits.
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