Agronomy  

Chunxiao Liu, Zongxin Li, Tieshan Liu, Hui Zhang, Haijun Zhao, Qingcheng Wang, Yonghui Shi, Hongcui Dai and Kaichang Liu

The delay of leaf senescence, also known as the stay-green (SG) phenotype, is a trait closely associated with yield gain and resistance to many biotic/abiotic stresses. In order to increase the stress tolerance in maize, eight genetic background types wer... see more

Salam Y. Abu-Zaitoun, Kottakota Chandrasekhar, Siwar Assili, Munqez J. Shtaya, Rana M. Jamous, Omar B. Mallah, Kamal Nashef, Hanan Sela, Assaf Distelfeld, Nawal Alhajaj, Mohammed S. Ali-Shtayeh, Zvi Peleg and Roi Ben-David

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Vikrant Tyagi, Satwinder Kaur Dhillon, Prashant Kaushik and Gurpreet Kaur

Sunflower is sensitive to drought, and furthermore, sunflower hybrids display limited cytoplasmic diversity. In addition, the wild cytoplasmic sources of sunflower are not well explored for their potential to introduce drought tolerance into newly develop... see more

Eleni Tani, Efi Sarri, Maria Goufa, Georgia Asimakopoulou, Maria Psychogiou, Edwin Bingham, George N. Skaracis and Eleni M. Abraham

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Kristina Toderich, Elena Shuyskaya, Zulfira Rakhmankulova, Roman Bukarev, Temur Khujanazarov, Rauan Zhapaev, Shoaib Ismail, Shashi K. Gupta, Norikazu Yamanaka and Fazyl Boboev

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Cathy Hawes, Colin J. Alexander, Graham S. Begg, Pietro P. M. Iannetta, Alison J. Karley, Geoffrey R. Squire and Mark Young

The intensification of arable production since the 1950s has resulted in increases in yield but only at significant cost to the environment, raising serious concerns about long-term consequences for the sustainability of food production systems. While a r... see more

Alison M. Vogel and Frederick E. Below

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Matthew R. Urschel and Tessa Pocock

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Farghama Khalil, Xiao Naiyan, Muhammad Tayyab and Chen Pinghua

Drought stress is one of the major agronomic concerns that lead towards a sharp decline in sugarcane yield. An urgent demand to overcome drought is critical to ensure sugarcane production. Mutation breeding is one of the promising tools available to produ... see more

Jorge Gil C. Angeles, Jickerson P. Lado, Evangeline D. Pascual, Cristeta A. Cueto, Antonio C. Laurena and Rita P. Laude

The coconut is a major crop of many tropical countries, with the endosperm being one of its main products. The coconut soft-endosperm variants, the Makapuno and the Lono, are emerging as economically important. This review describes this crop, its salient... see more

Emmanuel Badewa, Adrian Unc, Mumtaz Cheema, Vanessa Kavanagh and Lakshman Galagedara

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Murali Vuyyuru, Hardev S. Sandhu, James M. McCray and Richard N. Raid

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Qinfu Sun, Jueyi Xue, Li Lin, Dongxiao Liu, Jian Wu, Jinjin Jiang and Youping Wang

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Zhaoquan He, Tonghui Zhang, Xinping Liu and Xue Shang

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Donato Loddo, Per Kudsk, Bruno Costa, Natalino Dalla Valle and Maurizio Sattin

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Francisco Lagos Susaeta, Mario Maino, Lisette Lapierre, Pilar Oviedo, Ricardo Riquelme, Andrea Baeza Villarroel, Marianela Quintrel, Luis Pablo Hervé-Claude and Javiera Cornejo

Improvements and good practices (GPs) in rural environments are often developed by peasants themselves and shared among trust-based networks. The level of adoption of GPs by peasant family farmers (PFF) has been poorly studied. This paper describes the pe... see more

Takanori Kuronuma, Yua Watanabe, Masaya Ando and Hitoshi Watanabe

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Muhammad Umer Farooq, Abdus Salam Khan, Iqra Ishaaq, Asim Ali Cheema, Muhammad Shahzad Afzal, Asif Ali and Jianqing Zhu

Drought has become more frequent in central Asia causing large losses in cereal yield. To surmount the existing problem, it is imperative to emphasize early maturing varietal development. However, the impact of heat units on spike morphology and its relat... see more

Khin Thuzar Win, Aung Zaw Oo, Naoko Ohkama-Ohtsu and Tadashi Yokoyama

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Josué I. García-López, Francisco Zavala-García, Emilio Olivares-Sáenz, Ricardo H. Lira-Saldívar, Enrique Díaz Barriga-Castro, Norma A. Ruiz-Torres, Edith Ramos-Cortez, Rigoberto Vázquez-Alvarado and Guillermo Niño-Medina

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Jagadish Timsina

Meeting global demand of safe and healthy food for the ever-increasing population now and into the future is currently a crucial challenge. Increasing crop production by preserving environment and mitigating climate change should thus be the main goal of ... see more

Isaac Kwadwo Mpanga, Harrison Kwame Dapaah, Joerg Geistlinger, Uwe Ludewig and Günter Neumann

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Roxanne Y. Stiglitz, Elena A. Mikhailova, Julia L. Sharp, Christopher J. Post, Mark A. Schlautman, Patrick D. Gerard and Michael P. Cope

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Long He and James Schupp

Pruning is one of the most important tree fruit production activities, which is highly dependent on human labor. Skilled labor is in short supply, and the increasing cost of labor is becoming a big issue for the tree fruit industry. Meanwhile, worker safe... see more

Meng Lin, Shubing Liu, Guorong Zhang and Guihua Bai

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Olivier Husson, Alain Audebert, Jaroslav Benada, Brigitte Soglonou, Firmin Tano, Ibnou Dieng, Lydia Bousset, Jean-Pierre Sarthou, Stephen Joseph, Philippe Menozzi, Stéphane Boulakia and Koichi Futakuchi

A wealth of knowledge has been published in the last decade on redox regulations in plants. However, these works remained largely at cellular and organelle levels. Simple indicators of oxidative stress at the plant level are still missing. We developed a ... see more

Abdelaziz Nilahyane, M. Anowarul Islam, Abdel O. Mesbah and Axel Garcia y Garcia

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Hao Wei, Jiangtao Hu, Chen Liu, Mengzhao Wang, Jin Zhao, Dong Il Kang and Byoung Ryong Jeong

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Yong Zhou, Jingwen Li, Junhong Wang, Wenting Yang and Youxin Yang

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Hao Wang, Tetsuo Takano and Shenkui Liu

The improvement and development of saline–alkali land is of great significance for promoting food production and sustainable development. It is necessary to study the mechanism of saline–alkaline tolerance and breed saline–alkaline toler... see more