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Critical stages of drought stress and its impact on vegetable crops
Vegetable crops
Improper watering
Impact
Tomato
Early flowering, fruit set
reduced fruit size, fruit splitting,
puffiness and development of calcium deficient disorder i.e. blossom end rot
(BER), poor quality
Brinjal
Flowering and fruit
development
poor colour development in fruits, poor seed viability
Chilli and Capsicum
Flowering and fruit set
Reduction in dry matter production and
nutrient uptake, poor seed viability
Potato
Tuberization and tuber
enlargement
Poor tuber growth and yield, splitting, internal brown spot

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