The region is irregularly struck by severe droughts, which can last one or several subsequent years [ 66- 68].
In this study, an ordinal regression model is proposed to characterize droughts in USDM drought categories based on several drought indices, in which the probability of each drought category can be estimated.
Several droughts occurred during this interval, some of which are evident in other paleoclimatic records from the Caribbean region.
The rainfall helped to relieve a persistent drought which had existed for several months.
A QTL interval on chromosome 4, which contains several drought resistance QTLs, was selected for further study.
The continuous adoption and adaptation of private enclosures since they were first introduced in 1987 was influenced by several factors, among them increasing land degradation and drought which resulted in general scarcity of good grazing (Makokha et al. 1999).
The El Niño-fuelled drought which has hit Southern Africa hard over the last two years has overwhelmed the disaster preparedness capacity of the affected States, several of which have declared states of emergency.
"There is an increased risk of drought which obviously isn't good for people already in drought.
Among these genes, several drought-induced genes were detected (e.g., AP2, U-box, Serine proteases, and Peroxidase), and 50 genes of unknown function, which are candidate genes for further studies (Additional file 5: Table S4).
The in silico analysis of drought QTL regions revealed the association of several drought-responsive genes conferring drought tolerance.
