Tef [Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter]

Cannarozzi, Gina; Tadele, Zerihun (2022). Tef [Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter]. In: Chapman, Mark A. (ed.) Underutilised Crop Genomes. Compendium of Plant Genomes (pp. 27-39). Cham: Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-031-00848-1_3

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Tef Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter is the major food crop of Ethiopia in terms of production, consumption, and cash crop value and is also grown outside the Horn of Africa as a forage crop. In Ethiopia, tef production accounts for more than twenty-five percent of the gross grain production of all cereals cultivated in the country. Tef provides quality food and grows under marginal conditions, conferring it great economic and agricultural significance. Unfortunately, the productivity of tef is relatively low with national average yield of about 1.9 t/ha in 2020. This low productivity has roots in both technical and socio-economic constraints. In the last decade, however, tef has benefitted from scientific improvement, starting with genomic sequencing in 2014. This paper provides an overview of tef, its significance in Ethiopia, some of its major production constraints, and some of the major technical achievements made to date, including genome sequencing and the improvement techniques that followed. In addition, we discuss some of the agronomic traits that have been targeted for improvement such as waterlogging, drought, plant architecture, and nutrition.

Item Type:

Book Section (Book Chapter)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS) > Plant Development
08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS)

UniBE Contributor:

Cannarozzi, Gina Michelle, Tadele, Zerihun

Subjects:

500 Science > 580 Plants (Botany)

ISSN:

2199-4781

ISBN:

978-3-031-00848-1

Series:

Compendium of Plant Genomes

Publisher:

Springer International Publishing

Language:

English

Submitter:

Peter Alfred von Ballmoos-Haas

Date Deposited:

07 Nov 2022 08:15

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 16:27

Publisher DOI:

10.1007/978-3-031-00848-1_3

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/174541

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/174541

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