Agronomy  

Pasquale Tripodi, Daniele Massa, Accursio Venezia and Teodoro Cardi

Increasing the ability to investigate plant functions and structure through non-invasive methods with high accuracy has become a major target in plant breeding and precision agriculture. Emerging approaches in plant phenotyping play a key role in unraveli... see more

Mengistu Welemariam, Fassil Kebede, Bobe Bedadi and Emiru Birhane

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Carlos M. G. Reis, Joana Raimundo and Maria Margarida Ribeiro

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Giuseppina Adiletta, Maria Silvia Pasquariello, Luigi Zampella, Francesco Mastrobuoni, Marco Scortichini and Milena Petriccione

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Ying Tang, Xun Li, Wenzhong Shen and Zengqiang Duan

The effects of a single basal fertilization with oxamide compared with those of a split application of urea on ammonia volatilization, rice yield, nitrogen (N) accumulation, and N use efficiency were investigated in a field experiment over 2 years. The st... see more

Caihong Yang, Zhilong Fan and Qiang Chai

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Diego Jarquin, Reka Howard, Alencar Xavier and Sruti Das Choudhury

Phenomics is a new area that offers numerous opportunities for its applicability in plant breeding. One possibility is to exploit this type of information obtained from early stages of the growing season by combining it with genomic data. This opens an av... see more

Alessandro Natalini, Giacomo Cocetta, Nazzareno Acciarri and Antonio Ferrante

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Ruth Njoroge, Abigael N. Otinga, John R. Okalebo, Mary Pepela and Roel Merckx

Deficiencies of secondary and micronutrients (SMNs) are major causes of low maize yields in poorly responsive soils. This phenomenon minimizes the agronomic efficiency of N, P and K fertilizers and consequently result in a dwindling economic benefit assoc... see more

Bijay- Singh

Soil is one of the most important natural resources and medium for plant growth. Anthropogenic interventions such as tillage, irrigation, and fertilizer application can affect the health of the soil. Use of fertilizer nitrogen (N) for crop production infl... see more

Michael E. Ruckle, Lucia Bernasconi, Roland Kölliker, Samuel C. Zeeman and Bruno Studer

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Jing-jun Ruan, Shan-jun Tian, Jun Yan, Hui Chen, Ru-hong Xu and Jian-ping Cheng

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S. Marisol L. Basile, Mike M. Burrell, Heather J. Walker, Jorge A. Cardozo, Chloe Steels, Felix Kallenberg, Jorge A. Tognetti, Horacio R. DallaValle and W. John Rogers

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Nasrein Mohamed Kamal, Yasir Serag Alnor Gorafi, Ryosuke Mega and Hisashi Tsujimoto

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Francisco L. Santos

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Beatriz Bielsa, Carole Bassett, D. Michael Glenn and María José Rubio-Cabetas

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Matti Sihvonen, Kari Hyytiäinen, Elena Valkama and Eila Turtola

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Lazarus K. Mramba, Gary F. Peter, Vance M. Whitaker and Salvador A. Gezan

The aim of this study was to generate and evaluate the efficiency of improved field experiments while simultaneously accounting for spatial correlations and different levels of genetic relatedness using a mixed models framework for orthogonal and non-orth... see more

Tingshuang Zhang, Bo Fan and Peng Wang

Recent studies have demonstrated that the presence of belowground neighbours induces varied morphological and biochemical responses in plants. Plant allelopathic activity is elicited by the presence of competitor seedlings or competitor root exudates. How... see more

Tove Kristina Sundgren, Anne Kjersti Uhlen, Wendy Waalen and Morten Lillemo

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Ibrahim S. Elbasyoni

Egypt, the fifteenth most populated country and the largest wheat importer worldwide, is vulnerable to global warming. Ten of the commercial and widely grown wheat cultivars were planted in two locations, i.e., Elbostan and Elkhazan for three successive s... see more

Kesavan Markkandan, Seung-il Yoo, Young-Chan Cho and Dong Woo Lee

Rice, being a staple food crop for over one-third of the world’s population, has become a potential target for many dishonest traders and stakeholders for mixing with low-grade, low-cost grains/products and poorly nutritious adulterants to make a profit w... see more

Ilias S. Travlos, Nikolina Cheimona, Rafael De Prado, Amit J. Jhala, Demosthenis Chachalis and Eleni Tani

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Garry J. O’Leary, Pramod K. Aggarwal, Daniel F. Calderini, David J. Connor, Peter Craufurd, Sanford D. Eigenbrode, Xue Han and Jerry L. Hatfield

Since the introduction of mechanized production in both developed and developing countries, crops and their management have undergone significant adaptation resulting in increased productivity. Historical yield increases in wheat have occurred across most... see more

Josefa Hernández-Ruiz and Marino B. Arnao

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