Agronomy  

Wekha N. Wafula, Nicholas K. Korir, Henry F. Ojulong, Moses Siambi and Joseph P. Gweyi-Onyango

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Lucia Bortolini, Carmelo Maucieri and Maurizio Borin

In the Mediterranean arid and semi-arid regions, large amounts of low quality waters could be used for crop irrigation, but the adoption of articulated classifications with too rigid quality limits can often reduce the recoverable quantities of water and ... see more

Mohammed M. A. Elbashier, Shao Xiaohou, Albashir A. S. Ali and Alnail Mohmmed

Despite the recent interest in biochar and digestate as soil amendments for improving soil quality and increasing crop production, there is inadequate knowledge of the effect of the combination of biochar and digestate, particularly under saline irrigatio... see more

Martin P. N. Gent

Predicting the growth response of seedlings from the environmental responses of photosynthesis and metabolism may be improved by considering the dynamics of non-structural carbohydrate (NSC) over a diurnal cycle. Attenuation of growth metabolism when NSC ... see more

Jie Liu and Meixue Zhou

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Ixchel M. Hernandez-Ochoa and Senthold Asseng

In the future, climate change will challenge food security by threatening crop production. Humid subtropical regions play an important role in global food security, with crop rotations often including wheat (winter crop) and soybean and maize (summer crop... see more

Bello M. Shehu, Roel Merckx, Jibrin M. Jibrin, Alpha Y. Kamara and Jairos Rurinda

Diagnostic on-farm nutrient omission trials were conducted over two cropping seasons (2015 and 2016) to assess soil nutrients related constraints to maize yield in the northern Nigerian savanna agro-ecological zone and to quantify their variability. Two s... see more

B. Shaun Bushman, Alpana Joshi and Paul G. Johnson

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Andreas Tewes and Jürgen Schellberg

Radiation Use Efficiency (RUE) defines the productivity with which absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (APAR) is converted to plant biomass. Readily used in crop growth models to predict dry matter accumulation, RUE is commonly determined by elab... see more

Michel Pirchio, Marco Fontanelli, Christian Frasconi, Luisa Martelloni, Michele Raffaelli, Andrea Peruzzi, Monica Gaetani, Simone Magni, Lisa Caturegli, Marco Volterrani and Nicola Grossi

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Marcel Van Oijen, Gianni Bellocchi and Mats Höglind

There is increasing evidence that the impact of climate change on the productivity of grasslands will at least partly depend on their biodiversity. A high level of biodiversity may confer stability to grassland ecosystems against environmental change, but... see more

Lilia Salas-Pérez, Tiziana Fornari-Reale, Pablo Preciado-Rangel, José L. García-Hernández, Esteban Sánchez-Chávez and Enrique Troyo-Diéguez

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Satoru Fukagawa and Yasuyuki Ishii

We investigated a new method for the establishment of dwarf Napiergrass by covering stem cuttings with soil in the winter season analogously to summer establishment in sugarcane. Three experiments were conducted, including measuring the labor involved in ... see more

Uvirkaa Akumaga, Aondover Tarhule, Claudio Piani, Bouba Traore and Ado A. Yusuf

Climate change is estimated to substantially reduce crop yields in Sub-Saharan West Africa by 2050. Yet, a limited number of studies also suggest that several adaptation measures may mitigate the effects of climate change induced yield loss. In this paper... see more

Vijayaraju Parimi, Vijay Krishna K. Kotamraju and Hari K. Sudini

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Abdullah A. Jaradat and Walter Goldstein

Densities of single and multiple macro- and micronutrients were estimated in the mature kernels of 1348 accessions in 13 maize genotypes. The germplasm belonged to stiff stalk (SS) and non-stiff stalk (NS) heterotic groups (HGs) with one (S1) to four (S4)... see more