Irrigation management in relation to waterlogging and salinity: Precise for a research agenda in Pakistan

Waterlogging / Salinity / Water management / Agricultural production / Water balance / Water transfer / Research / Pakistan

Prospects for productive use of saline water in West Asia and North Africa

Water quality / Salinity / Soil salinity / Irrigated farming / Crop production / Feed crops / Fodder / Poverty / Public policy / West Asia / North Africa / Egypt / Jordan / Syria / Tunisia

Water harvesting and supplemental irrigation for improved water use efficiency in dry areas

Productivity / Water harvesting / Runoff / Water storage / Crop production / Water use efficiency / Arid lands / Water resources development / Rain-fed farming / Supplementary irrigation / Irrigation scheduling / Environmental effects / Research priorities / Case studies / West Asia / North Africa / India / Libya / Syria / Burkina Faso

How to manage salinity in irrigated lands: a selective review with particular reference to irrigation in developing countries

Irrigation management / Irrigable land / Soil salinity / Water use efficiency / Soil degradation / Irrigated farming / Policy making / Developing countries

Chitin oligosaccharide synthesis by rhizobia and zebrafish embryos starts by glycosyl transfer to O4 of the reducing-terminal residue

Microbial Biotechnolog

Opportunities to Increase Water Productivity in Agriculture with Special Reference to Africa and South Asia. Stockholm Environment Institute, Project Report - 2009

Our primary goal in this paper is to describe how improvements in water and land management can increase the productivity of water in agriculture, which, broadly defined, means getting more value or benefit from the volume of water used to produce crops, fish, forests and livestock (Kijne et al., 2003). We begin by reviewing water scarcity and water productivity at the global level. We then describe ten Key Messages regarding efforts to improve water productivity in agriculture, with emphasis on Africa and South Asia

Zinc finger proteins act as transcriptional repressors of alkaloid biosynthesis genes in Catharanthus roseus

Plant science