Agronomy  

Saskia Windisch, Sebastian Bott, Marc-Andreas Ohler, Hans-Peter Mock, Rico Lippmann, Rita Grosch, Kornelia Smalla, Uwe Ludewig and Günter Neumann

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Aslihan Temel, Bianka Janack and Klaus Humbeck

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Zerihun Abebe and Haile Deressa

The problems of low soil fertility resulting from continuous monocropping, crop residue removal and limited fertilizer use represent key challenges to produce surplus food for the ever increasing population of Ethiopia. However, the practices of crop rota... see more

Travis Goron, Jacob Nederend, Greg Stewart, Bill Deen and Manish Raizada

After uptake in cereal crops, nitrogen (N) is rapidly assimilated into glutamine (Gln) and other amino acids for transport to sinks. Therefore Gln has potential as an improved indicator of soil N availability compared to plant N demand. Gln has primarily ... see more

Kjell B. Esser

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Amanda J. Ashworth, Fred L. Allen, Kara S. Warwick, Patrick D. Keyser, Gary E. Bates, Don D. Tyler, Paris L. Lambdin and Dan H. Pote

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Julien Verzeaux, Elodie Nivelle, David Roger, Bertrand Hirel, Frédéric Dubois and Thierry Tetu

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) play major roles in nutrient acquisition by crops and are key actors of agroecosystems productivity. However, agricultural practices can have deleterious effects on plant–fungi symbiosis establishment in soils, thus inhi... see more

Stephen Panter, Aidyn Mouradov, Pieter Badenhorst, Luciano Martelotto, Megan Griffith, Kevin F. Smith and German Spangenberg

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Sadikshya R. Dangi, Rebecca Tirado-Corbalá, James Gerik and Bradley D. Hanson

High value crop producers in California rely heavily on soil fumigation to control a wide array of soil borne pests including nematodes, pathogens and weeds. Fumigants with broad biocidal activity can affect soil microbial communities that contribute to n... see more

Mariangela Diacono, Alessandro Persiani, Angelo Fiore, Francesco Montemurro and Stefano Canali

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Valerie Little, Kevin F.M. Reed and Kevin F. Smith

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Fumiomi Takeda, Wei Q. Yang, Changying Li, Andris Freivalds, Kiseok Sung, Rui Xu, Bo Hu, Jeffrey Williamson and Steven Sargent

The growth of the blueberry industry in the past three decades has been remarkably robust. However, a labor shortage for hand harvesting, increasingly higher labor costs, and low harvest efficiencies are becoming bottlenecks for sustainable development of... see more

Malin C. Broberg, Petra Högy and Håkan Pleijel

Elevated carbon dioxide (eCO2) stimulates wheat grain yield, but simultaneously reduces protein/nitrogen (N) concentration. Also, other essential nutrients are subject to change. This study is a synthesis of wheat experiments with eCO2, estimating the eff... see more

Emma J. Bennett, Christopher J. Brignell, Pierre W. C. Carion, Samantha M. Cook, Peter J. Eastmond, Graham R. Teakle, John P. Hammond, Clare Love, Graham J. King, Jeremy A. Roberts and Carol Wagstaff

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Ashna Akbar, Surendra Singh Manohar, Murali Tottekkaad Variath, Sadaiah Kurapati and Janila Pasupuleti

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Carlo Nicoletto, Carmelo Maucieri and Paolo Sambo

Agriculture is the largest user of world water resources, accounting for 70% of all consumption. Reducing water consumption and increasing water use efficiency in agriculture are two of the main challenges that need to be faced in the coming decades. Radi... see more

Alemayehu Teressa Negawo, Abel Teshome, Alok Kumar, Jean Hanson and Chris S. Jones

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Nitika Sandhu and Arvind Kumar

Rice is the staple food for more than half of the world’s population. Although rice production has doubled in the last 30 years as a result of the development of high-yield, widely adaptable, resource-responsive, semi-dwarf varieties, the threat of a food... see more

Elvire Line SOSSA, Codjo Emile AGBANGBA, Sènan Gbèmawonmèdé Gwladys Stéfania ACCALOGOUN, Guillaume Lucien AMADJI, Kossi Euloge AGBOSSOU and Djidjoho Joseph HOUNHOUIGAN

Heterogeneity in pineapple fruit quality explains the low export volume of fruits from Benin to international markets. This work aims to investigate the influences of residues mulching or burying and N-K fertilization on (1) fresh fruit juice quality and ... see more