30 articles in this issue
Narges Moradtalab, Roghieh Hajiboland, Nasser Aliasgharzad, Tobias E. Hartmann and Günter Neumann
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Zhenghai Sun, Juan Du, Xiaoying Pu, Muhammad Kazim Ali, Xiaomeng Yang, Chengli Duan, Meirong Ren, Xia Li and Yawen Zeng
Fazli Hameed, Junzeng Xu, Shah Fahad Rahim, Qi Wei, Anis ur Rehman Khalil and Qi Liao
Major challenge in rice production is to achieve the goal of enhancing both food production and fertilizer use efficiency. Rice growth simulation model, ORYZA (v3) was used in the present study to evaluate the model under continuous flooded (CF) and alter... see more
Eleni Tani, Evangelia G. Chronopoulou, Nikolaos E. Labrou, Effie Sarri, ?aria Goufa, Xristina Vaharidi, Alexia Tornesaki, Maria Psychogiou, Penelope J. Bebeli and ?leni M. Abraham
Yan Fei Liang, Shahbaz Khan, Ai-xia Ren, Wen Lin, Sumera Anwar, Min Sun and Zhi-qiang Gao
Dryland winter wheat in the Loess Plateau is facing a yield reduction due to a shortage of soil moisture and delayed sowing time. The field experiment was conducted at Loess Plateau in Shanxi, China from 2012 to 2015, to study the effect of subsoiling and... see more
Ana I. Marí, Gabriel Pardo, Alicia Cirujeda and Yolanda Martínez
Black polyethylene (PE) is the most common mulching material used in horticultural crops in the world but its use represents a very serious environmental problem. Biodegradable films and paper mulches are available alternatives but farmers are reluctant t... see more
Salah El-Hendawy, Nasser Al-Suhaibani, Yaser Hassan Dewir, Salah Elsayed, Majed Alotaibi, Wael Hassan, Yahya Refay and Muhammad Usman Tahir
Hyperspectral sensing offers a quick and non-destructive alternative for assessing phenotypic parameters of plant physiological status and salt stress tolerance. This study compares the performance of published and modified spectral reflectance indices (S... see more
Huasen Xu, Huaxing Bi, Lubo Gao and Lei Yun
Ying Ma, Aleš Látr, Inês Rocha, Helena Freitas, Miroslav Vosátka and Rui S. Oliveira
Chuan-Pin Lu, Jiun-Jian Liaw, Tzu-Ching Wu and Tsung-Fu Hung
In Taiwan, mushrooms are an agricultural product with high nutritional value and economic benefit. However, global warming and climate change have affected plant quality. As a result, technological greenhouses are replacing traditional tin houses as locat... see more
Marcos R. C. Cordeiro, Alan Rotz, Roland Kroebel, Karen A. Beauchemin, Derek Hunt, Shabtai Bittman, Karen M. Koenig and David B. McKenzie
Forage production in northern latitudes is challenging and uncertain in the future. In this case-study, the integrated farm system model (IFSM) was used to assess the impact of climate change and cropland expansion scenarios on forage production in a dair... see more
Isabel Luisa Castillejo-González, Ana Isabel De Castro, Montserrat Jurado-Expósito, José-Manuel Peña, Alfonso García-Ferrer and Francisca López-Granados
This paper aims to evaluate the spatial persistence of wild oat patches in four wheat fields over time to determine the economic feasibility of using late-season wild oat maps for early site-specific weed management (SSWM) next season. The spatial persist... see more
Tobias Edward Hartmann, Iris Wollmann, Yawen You and Torsten Müller
Extractive tests for determining the plant-availability of soil phosphorus (P) give varying results due to the inherently different characteristics of the extraction solution. Generally, classical soil P tests such as the Olsen or calcium acetate/lactate ... see more
Sara Trevisan, Alessandro Manoli and Silvia Quaggiotti
The main challenge to agriculture worldwide is feeding a rapidly growing human population, developing more sustainable agricultural practices that do not threaten human and ecosystem health. An innovative solution relies on the use of biostimulants, as a ... see more
Yu Tsai, Ching-Gong Lin, Wei-Lin Chen, Yu-Chun Huang, Cheng-Yu Chen, Keh-Feng Huang and Chao-Hsun Yang
Sadikshya Sharma and Krishna Bhattarai
Vasilia A. Fasoula, Kevin C. Thompson and Andy Mauromoustakos
Prognostic breeding is a crop improvement methodology that utilizes prognostic equations to enable concurrent selection for plant yield potential and stability of performance. There is a necessity for plant breeders to accurately phenotype plants in the f... see more
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Intan Ria Neliana, Widhi Dyah Sawitri, Netty Ermawati, Tri Handoyo and Bambang Sugiharto
Sugarcane is considered as an industrial crop that produces sugar. The number of transgenic sugarcane on the market is currently increasing. Therefore, investigation of the potential allergens and toxics in transgenic sugarcane is necessary, since there i... see more
Valentino Ruggieri, Roberta Calafiore, Carlo Schettini, Maria Manuela Rigano, Fabrizio Olivieri, Luigi Frusciante and Amalia Barone
Jae-Wook OH, Se Chul Chun and Murugesan Chandrasekaran
Filipe Souza, Eduardo Alves, Rafael Pio, Elisa Castro, Gregory Reighard, Ana Izabella Freire, Newton Alex Mayer and Róberson Pimentel
Understanding the growing process and fruit size differences among peach cultivars is extremely important in the technological domain of the crop and can provide information to improve the proper crop management (thinning and harvesting seasons) and the c... see more
Phanupong Phoncharoen, Poramate Banterng, Nimitr Vorasoot, Sanun Jogloy, Piyada Theerakulpisut and Gerrit Hoogenboom
Information on the forking, leaf area index, and biomass of cassava for different growing seasons could help design appropriate management to improve yield. The objective was to evaluate the forking date, leaf growth, and storage root yield of different c... see more
Zhihui Yu, Hongjin Wang, Yunfang Xu, Yongshang Li, Tao Lang, Zujun Yang and Guangrong Li
Manuel Díaz-Pérez, Ángel Carreño-Ortega, José-Antonio Salinas-Andújar and Ángel-Jesús Callejón-Ferre
Carrie J. Butts-Wilmsmeyer, Juliann R. Seebauer, Lee Singleton and Frederick E. Below
Adama Zongo, Abdourasmane K. Konate, Kadidia Koïta, Mahamadou Sawadogo, Philippe Sankara, Bonny R. Ntare and Haile Desmae
Early leaf spot (ELS) is one of the major biotic constraints of groundnut production in West and Central Africa. A study using 6 × 6 F2 full diallel populations from six parents (NAMA, B188, PC79-79, QH243C, TS32-1, and CN94C) was conducted to asses... see more
Yadong Yang, Peixin Wang and Zhaohai Zeng
Fertilization plays important roles in improving soil fertility and in increasing crop yield. Soil microbial communities are sensitive indicators of soil quality and health, which could be affected by fertilization strategy. However, our knowledge on how ... see more
Firas Ahmed Alsajri, Bhupinder Singh, Chathurika Wijewardana, J. Trenton Irby, Wei Gao and Kambham Raja Reddy
Matteo Caser, Íris Marisa Maxaieie Victorino, Sonia Demasi, Andrea Berruti, Dario Donno, Erica Lumini, Valeria Bianciotto and Valentina Scariot