Pulses

Pulses crops constitute an integral part of rainfed agriculture where water limitation is a major factor for decreasing productivity. There are many factors such as warmer climate, increasing temperature, solar radiation during critical crop growth stages which causes reduced water availability and ultimately resulting in less yield.
Chickpea and lentil crops suffer from terminal drought stress resulting in reduced yield. The full yield potential of pulses is not realized due to their susceptibility towards various abiotic factors including drought, temperature extremes, salinity, etc.
There are reports that heat stress occurs in chickpea, field pea (Pisum sativum L.), faba bean (Vicia faba L.) and lentil if the temperature rises beyond 25^oC, whereas temperature rising above 35-40^oC in rainy-season pulses causes 20–70% yield reductions through flower drop and pod abortion.