Agronomy  

Muhammad Nadeem, Jiajia Li, Minghua Wang, Liaqat Shah, Shaoqi Lu, Xiaobo Wang and Chuanxi Ma

The astonishing increase in temperature presents an alarming threat to crop production worldwide. As evident by huge yield decline in various crops, the escalating drastic impacts of heat stress (HS) are putting global food production as well as nutrition... see more

Halil Ozkurt and Ozlem Altuntas

All living organisms perceive mechanical signals, regardless of their taxonomic classifications or life habits. Because of their immobility, plants are influenced by a variety of environmental stresses, such as mechanical stress, during their growth and d... see more

Youssef Rouphael, Maria Giordano, Mariateresa Cardarelli, Eugenio Cozzolino, Mauro Mori, Marios C. Kyriacou, Paolo Bonini and Giuseppe Colla

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Xinqing Xiao, Zhiqiang Zhu, Zetian Fu, Weisong Mu and Xiaoshuan Zhang

Low-carbon production is one of the dominating issues in the sustainable development of the food industry with high energy consumption, especially in the table grapes cold chain. The aim of this paper is to propose a profit maximization strategy of table ... see more

Vivianne F. Burnett, Jeff R. Hirth, Kym L. Butler, Meredith L. Mitchell, Steve G. Clark and Zhongnan Nie

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Alper Taner, Yesim Benal Öztekin, Ali Tekgüler, Hüseyin Sauk and Hüseyin Duran

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Amanda Moreira Lopes, Pedro Vitor Schumacher, Aurora Terylene Pérez Martínez, Antônio Paulino da Costa Netto and Antonio Chalfun-Junior

Achieving high yields is a challenge for sugarcane producers due to the diverse environmental conditions to which the crop is subjected. In tropical and subtropical regions, where sugarcane is typically cultivated, crop diseases are common. This necessita... see more

Saiful Islam, Jagadish Timsina, Muhammad Salim, Kaushik Majumdar and Mahesh K Gathala

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Nurudeen Abdul Rahman, Asamoah Larbi, Bekele Kotu, Francis Marthy Tetteh and Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon

The hypothesis that application of starter nitrogen (N) fertilizer to cowpea may increase grain and fodder yields and profitability was tested in the Guinea and Sudan savanna zones of northern Ghana. Two cowpea varieties (Apagbaala: grain-type and Padi-Tu... see more

Petr Smýkal, Matthew N. Nelson, Jens D. Berger and Eric J.B. Von Wettberg

Humans have domesticated hundreds of plant and animal species as sources of food, fiber, forage, and tools over the past 12,000 years, with manifold effects on both human society and the genetic structure of the domesticated species. The outcomes of crop ... see more

Joseph L. Pegler, Christopher P. L. Grof and Andrew L. Eamens

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Babette Wienforth, Astrid Knieß, Ulf Böttcher, Antje Herrmann, Klaus Sieling, Friedhelm Taube and Henning Kage

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Robert L. Zimdahl

Those engaged in agriculture possess a definite but unexamined moral confidence or certainty about the correctness of what they do. The basis of the moral confidence is not obvious to those who have it, or to the public. In fact, the moral confidence that... see more

Kathryn Dumschott, Carola H. Blessing and Andrew Merchant

Developing biomarkers and bio-indicators that will better indicate stress tolerance is crucial for plant breeding to increase crop resilience and productivity. However, complex interactions between water availability, light intensity, and temperature fluc... see more

Stefan Engelhardt, Remco Stam and Ralph Hückelhoven

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William J. Cox and Jerome H. Cherney

Maize producers transitioning to an organic cropping system must grow crops organically without price premiums for 36 months before certification. We evaluated conventional and organic maize with recommended and high seeding and N rates in New York to ide... see more

Sarah J. Pethybridge, Julie R. Kikkert, Linda E. Hanson and Scot C. Nelson

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Neymar Camposeco-Montejo, Valentín Robledo-Torres, Francisca Ramírez-Godina, Rosalinda Mendoza-Villarreal, Miguel Ángel Pérez-Rodríguez and Marcelino Cabrera-de la Fuente

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Dale Loussaert, Josh Clapp, Nick Mongar, Dennis P. O’Neill and Bo Shen

Grain yield in maize responds to N fertility in a linear-plateau fashion with nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) higher under lower N fertilities and less as grain yield plateaus. Field experiments were used to identify plant parameters relative for improved N... see more

Victoria Figueroa-Bustos, Jairo A. Palta, Yinglong Chen and Kadambot H.M. Siddique

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Hao Sun, Yuting Li and Hui Xu

The biological pattern of plants’ nitrous oxide (N2O) generation is not well understood because plant cells cannot form N2O from nitric oxide (NO) reduction. Hypothetically, we consider that plant-endophytic co-denitrification is potentially capable... see more

Anssi L. Vuorinen, Ruslan Kalendar, Tzion Fahima, Helena Korpelainen, Eviatar Nevo and Alan H. Schulman

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Hossein Sabet Zangeneh, Hamid Reza Mohammaddust Chamanabad, Eskandar Zand, Ricardo Alcántara-de la Cruz, Ilias S. Travlos, Rafael De Prado and Mohammad Taghi Alebrahim

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Min-Suk Kim, Hyun-Gi Min, Sang-Hwan Lee and Jeong-Gyu Kim

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Theodore G. Blumenschein, Kelly A. Nelson and Peter P. Motavalli

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Gongbo Tashi, Haoshuang Zhan, Guangwei Xing, Xi Chang, Hong Zhang, Xioajun Nie and Wanquan Ji

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Gurpreet Kaur, Kelly A. Nelson and Peter P. Motavalli

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Xuechun Wang, Muslim Qadir, Fahd Rasul, Guotao Yang and Yungao Hu

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Md. Moshiul Islam, Md. Razaul Karim, Md. Moinul Hosain Oliver, Tahmina Akter Urmi, Md. Ashraf Hossain and M. Moynul Haque

Adequate supply of micronutrients is important for the proper growth and yield of lentil, particularly in poorly fertile soil. This study was carried out to understand the effects of zinc (Zn), boron (B), and molybdenum (Mo) on the growth and yield of len... see more

Kevin Begcy, Anna Weigert, Andrew Ogolla Egesa and Thomas Dresselhaus

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