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Lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus) is an important cool season legume grown in Mediterranean and semiarid climates. The crop often faces terminal drought stress during the reproductive phase as a consequence of diminishing rainfall or plant available water and rising temperatures. Studies are now being initiated on the water-conservation traits in lentil. The first studies indicated substantial variation among genotypes in both soil water-conservation traits result from early partial stomata closure with soil drying and with vapor pressure deficit. A simulation of the potential benefit of a 1.1 kPa vapor pressure threshold for partial stomatal closure resulted in high probabilities of yield increase for Central India and in Bangladesh.
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Ghanem, M.E., Marrou, H., Guiguitant, J., ez-zahra Kibbou, F. (2017). Lentil. In: Sinclair, T. (eds) Water-Conservation Traits to Increase Crop Yields in Water-deficit Environments. SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56321-3_7
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