Book of Extended summaries ISDA

International Conference on Reimagining Rainfed Agro-ecosystems: Challenges &
Opportunities during 22-24, December 2022 at ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad
Conclusion
The results revealed that the Metarhizium anisopliae NBAIR-Ma 35 0.5% and NBAIR Bt 2%
are equally effective in managing the pest. So, M. anisopliae and B. thuringiensis can be
recommended for the management of fall armyworm in sorghum crop grown under organic
farming.
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T3-28P-1331
Morpho-Physiological Characterization of Drought Stress Tolerance at
Flowering Stage in Black Gram (Vigna mungo L. Hepper)
B. Sarkar, Y. Varalaxmi, K. Tejasree, N. Jyoti Lakshmi, M. Vanaja, Salini K., Satish P.,
S.S. Shishodia, M. Prabhakar A.K. Shanker, S.K. Yadav and V.K. Singh
ICAR-Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad-500059
Black gram is the fourth most important pulse crop after chickpea, pigeon pea and green
gram in acreage, production in India. Drought is the major factor affecting black gram
productivity specially in the era of climate change. When exposed to drought stress,
plants trigger various morpho-physiological responses (Baroowa and Gogoi 2012;
Baroowa et al.2016, Gurumurthy et al., 2018) to cope with stress for completing its life
cycle. Although grain yield is commonly used as criterion to measure drought tolerance,
dissecting yield into its contributing traits is critical for screening of germplasm and
utilizing in breeding program. Drought stress affects various morpho-physiological
traits like relative water content, membrane stability index, proline, apart from yield
attributes, eventually adversely affecting realization of source and sink potentials
(Anjum et al., 2011). Hence, it is paramount to develop drought-tolerant varieties to
improve crop productivity and make it more profitable to the farming communities.
Characterization and identification of traits are important for efficient utilization of
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