Developing rice and sorghum crop adaptation strategies for climate change in vulnerable environments in Africa - RISOCAS

Involved persons

• Prof. Dr. Folkard Asch
• Priv. Doz. Dr. Holger Brück
• Dr. agr. Marcus Giese
• Dr. agr. Sabine Stürz
• Prof. Dr. Georg Cadisch

Involved institutions

• Management of Crop Water Stress in the Tropics and Subtropics
• Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics (Hans-Ruthenberg-Institute)

Sponsors

• BMZ-GTZ

Publications in the course of the project

• Leaf area development in response to meristem temperature and irrigation system in lowland rice
  2014: Stuerz, S., Sow, A., Muller, B., Manneh, B., Asch, F
  
• Phenological responses of irrigated rice in the Sahel - PDF 2010: Stürz, S., Asch, F., Sow, A., Muller, B., Manneh, B., Dingkuhn, M.
  
• Rice crop innovations and natural resource management - a glimpse to the future
  2010: Asch, F.
  
• Intra-annual genotypic patterns of growth and water use of irrigated rice in the Sahel
  2010: Stürz, S., Asch, F., Sow, A., Muller, B., Manneh, B.
  
• Response of transpiration of lowland rice varieties to water-saving irrigation
  2010: Hartmann, J., Stürz, S., Manneh, B., Sow, A., Asch, F.
  
• Diagnosis of Rice Leaf N Status by Photochemical Reflectance Index (PRI) and Chlorophyll Index (SPAD)
  2010: Shrestha, S., Brück, H., Asch, F.
  
• Environmental Effects on Yield of Upland Rice Grown Along an Altitude Gradient in Madagascar
  2010: Shrestha, S., Asch, F. Brück, H., Ramanantsoanirina, A., Dusserre, J.
  
• Developing rice and sorghum crop adaptation strategies for climate change in vulnerable environments in Africa RISOCAS
  2009: Giese, M., Brueck, H., Dingkuhn, M., Kiepe, P., Asch, F. <a href="http://www.asch-online.eu/downloads/FA-Giese-TT09-Poster.pdf" target="_blank"><b><font color="#FF0000"> - PDF</font></b></a&gt
  
• Physiological and agronomic responses of selected rice genotypes to irrigation management in the Sahel
  2009: Schlegel, Isabel
  
• Temperature effects on the phenology of upland rice grown along an altitude gradient in Madagascar
  2009: Ramanantsoanirina, A., Duserre, J., Shresta, S., Asch, F. <a href="http://www.asch-online.eu/downloads/FA-Alain-TT09-Poster.pdf" target="_blank"><b><font color="#FF0000"> - PDF</font></b></a&g
  
• Upland rice adaptation to variable water availability along an altitude gradient in Madagascar
  2009: Shresta, S., Asch, F., Brueck, H., Duserre, J., Ramanantsoanirina, A. <a href="http://www.asch-online.eu/downloads/FA-Shrestha-TT09-Poster.pdf"><b><font color="#FF0000"> - PDF</font></b></a>
  
• Annual variation of water use and yield of irrigated rice in the Sahel
  2009: Stürz, S., Sow, A., Schlegel, I., Manneh, B., Asch, F. <a href="http://www.asch-online.eu/downloads/FA-Stuerz-TT09-Poster.pdf" target="_blank"><b><font color="#FF0000"> - PDF</font></b></a>
  
• Responses of sorghum varieties to climatic variability: A case study within the RISOCAS project
  2009: Abdulai, L.A., Kourressy, M. Vaksmann, M., Brück, H., Asch, F. <a href="http://www.tropentag.de/abstracts/full/458.pdf" target="_blank"><b><font color="#FF0000"> - PDF</font></b></a>
  
• Physiological responses of lowland rice cultivars to the saturated soil culture system
  2008: Stürz, S., Schlegel, I., Sow, A., Asch, F. <a href="http://www.asch-online.eu/downloads/FA-Stuerz-Schlegel-TT08-Poster.pdf" target="_blank"><b><font color="#FF0000"> - PDF</font></b></a>
  
• Rice crop innovations and natural-resource management — A glimpse into the future
  2011: Asch, F., Brueck, H.
  
• Rice crop innovations and natural-resource management — A glimpse into the future
  2011: Asch, F., Brueck, H.
  
• Yield Stability and Genotype x Environment Interactions of Upland Rice in Altitudinal Gradient in Madagascar
  2011: Shresta, S.P., Asch, F. Dusserre, J., Ramanantsoanirina, A.<a href="http://www.tropentag.de/2011/abstracts/full/517.pdf" target="_blank"><b><font color="#FF0000"> - PDF</font></b></a>
  
• Canopy microclimate and gas-exchange in response to irrigation system in lowland rice in the Sahel
  2014: Stuerz, S., Sow, A., Muller, B., Manneh, B., Asch, F.
  
• Yield components in response to thermal environment and irrigation system in lowland rice in the Sahel
  2014: Stuerz, S., Sow, A., Muller, B., Manneh, B., Asch, F
  
• Effects of water management on microclimate and yield physiology in irrigated rice in semi-arid environments
  2014: Stuerz, Sabine
  
• Einfluss von variablen temperaturen auf die Baltterscheinungsrate von Trockenreis
  2013: Chak, Juy-Kieu
  
• Phenological responses of upland rice grown along an altitudinal gradient
  2013: Shrestha, S., Asch, F., Brueck, H., Giese, M., Dusserre, J., Ramanantsoanirina, A.
  
• Yield stability of photoperiod-sensitive sorghum [Sorghum bicolor L. (Moench)] accessions under diverse climatic environments
  2012: Abdulai, A.L., Parzies, H., Kouressy, M., Vaksmann, M., Asch, F., Brueck, H.
  
• Climate effects on yield components as affected by genotypic responses to variable environmental conditions in upland rice systems at different altitudes.
  2012: Shrestha, S., Asch, F., Dusserre, J., Ramanantsoanirina, A., Brueck, H.
  
• Chlorophyll Index, Photochemical Reflectance Index and Chlorophyll Fluorescence Measurements of Rice Leaves Supplied with Different N Levels
  2012: Shrestha, S., Brueck, H., Asch, F.
  
• Latitude influences growth and phenological development of photo-periodic sorghums in the Semi-arid tropics of Africa
  2012: Abdulai, A. L., Kouressy, M., Vaksmann, M., Brueck, H., Asch, F., Giese, M.
  
• Genotypic responses of upland rice to an altitudinal gradient
  2012: Shrestha, Suchit
  
• Crop Improvement, Ideotyping and Modelling for African Cropping Systems Under Climate Change
  2012: Asch, F., Giese, M.
  
• Impact of Irrigation System on Microclimatic Parameters and Gas Exchange in Lowland Rice
  2012: Stuerz, S. Sow, A., Asch, F.
  
• Impact of climatic conditions on rice yield under water-saving irrigation in the Sahel
  2011: Stürz, S., Sow, A., Asch, F.