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Volume 8 Number 6 Part June Year 2018

18 articles in this issue 

João P. Pennacchi, Elizabete Carmo-Silva, P. John Andralojc, David Feuerhelm, Stephen J. Powers and Martin A. J. Parry

Improving crop yields arises as a solution to ensure food security in the future scenarios of a growing world population, changes in food consumption patterns, climate change, and limitations on resources allocated to agriculture. Defining traits that can... see more

 

Koffi Djaman, Michael O’Neill, Curtis Owen, Daniel Smeal, Margaret West, Dallen Begay, Sangamesh V. Angadi, Komlan Koudahe, Samuel Allen and Kevin Lombard

Canola is a cash crop produced for its highly-valued seed, and as a protein source for animal feed. While winter canola is produced mainly in the high plains, it is expanding to new environments, and is greatly incorporated into crop systems with advantag... see more

 

Francisco L. Santos

Reports on the annual effects of deficit irrigation regimes on olive trees are critical in shedding light on their impacts on water use, yield, and water productivity in distinct olive growing climate regions of the world. From the account of a four-year ... see more

 

Julián Cuevas, Virginia Pinillos, Mercedes Pérez-Macías, Francisca Alonso, Mónica González and Juan José Hueso

To determine if water-stressed trees need more time and heat to mature their fruits, we compared chronological and thermal time from bloom to harvest among control fully-irrigated ‘Algerie’ loquat trees and trees suffering prior-to-bloom defic... see more

 

Fang Xin, Jing Zhao, Yueting Zhou, Guobin Wang, Xiaoqiang Han, Wei Fu, Jizhong Deng and Yubin Lan

Plant protection unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) consist of light and small UAVs with pesticide spraying equipment. The advantage of UAVs is using low-volume spray technology to replace the traditional large-volume mass locomotive spray technology. Defoli... see more

 

Germán Tortosa, Salvador González-Gordo, Carmelo Ruiz, Eulogio J. Bedmar and José M. Palma

“Alperujo” compost was evaluated as an organic fertiliser for pepper growth under greenhouse conditions. Even though the total nitrogen applied was similar, plants only grown with composts experienced a development decline as compared to those... see more

 

Ian J. Tetlow

Starch is a water-insoluble polyglucan synthesized inside the plastids of plant tissues to provide a store of carbohydrate. Starch harvested from plant storage organs has probably represented the major source of calories for the human diet since before th... see more