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Optimal Supply of Micronutrients Improves Drought Tolerance in Legumes

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Legumes are of considerable importance for providing food and feed world over. In comparison to cereal grains, legume seeds are rich in protein and thus provide highly nutritive food. Legumes are grown on a wide range of soils varying in texture and fertility. Most of the soils of arid and semi-arid regions, being low in soil moisture content, are also low in fertility. So to maximize plant productivity, proper supply of macro- and micro-nutrients to crops is essential. As a general practice, optimal supply of macronutrients to crops is usually ensured but that of micronutrients is ignored. In view of a plethora of literature, it is now well established that application of micronutrients is effective in alleviating the adverse effects of abiotic stresses such as salinity and drought. The involvement of micronutrients in different physiological and biochemical activities of the legume plants is well documented because correlations between micronutrient supply and crop growth and productivity have been often observed. Use of micronutrients like zinc (Zn), iron (Fe), boron (B), manganese (Mn), molybdenum (Mo), copper (Cu), cobalt (Co) and nickel (Ni) has now become a common practice to increase crop yield especially under adverse environmental conditions. Plants deficient in micronutrients may become susceptible to diseases and abiotic stresses. Rapid leaching of acids in sandy soils tends to produce a deficiency of tightly held nutrients such as Zn, Fe, Cu or B. Therefore, problem soils such as acid, alkaline or sandy soils are often deficient in one or more micronutrient elements. Micronutrient application not only improves the stress tolerance potential indirectly (because micronutrients deficient plants exhibit an impaired defense response) but also results in improving a number of metabolic phenomena. Thus, application of micronutrients as foliar or soil amendment is recommended to achieve optimum crop productivity from the soils having inherent micronutrient deficiency and low moisture contents. In this chapter, the role of micronutrient management in improving the drought tolerance potential and productivity of legumes is reviewed and critically discussed.

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    Muhammad Yasin Ashraf, Khalid Mahmood, Javed Akhter & Faqir Hussain

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Ashraf, M.Y., Mahmood, K., Ashraf, M., Akhter, J., Hussain, F. (2012). Optimal Supply of Micronutrients Improves Drought Tolerance in Legumes. In: Ashraf, M., Öztürk, M., Ahmad, M., Aksoy, A. (eds) Crop Production for Agricultural Improvement. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4116-4_25

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