The integration of cover crops (CC) into annual crop rotations improves the provision of multiple ecosystem services in time and represents an alternative paradigm to achieve sustainability goals. In spite of the benefits ...

Flowering genes are main determinants of specific responses of pea genotypes to photoperiod and temperature, and hence determine maturity classes. However, it is unclear when and for how long plants are photoperiod-sensitive ...

The success of large crabgrass (Digitaria sanguinalis) growing among summer crops in Argentina, may be partly explained by its escape from weed controls related to the emergence of different seedlings cohorts determined ...

The environment temperature has direct influence in plant development, thus it is a better measure to biological time instead of days in civil calendar. For this reason, there is a relationship between development rate ...

An experiment was carried out at Fazenda Sao Manoel, pertaining to the Faculdade de Ciencias Agronamicas of the Universidade Estadual Paulista, Sao Manuel, SP, Brazil, to evaluate irrigation levels in the potato (Solanum ...

Maize is a main crop in Brazil. Maize yield can be decreased by water deficit. Irrigation is an alternative to overcome this problem and avoid the low soil water availability. In order to efficiently irrigate a crop it ...

Helicoverpa armigera Hubner, 1805 and Spodoptera frugiperda Smith, 1797 are polyphagous pests of great agricultural importance in subtropical and temperate climate regions. The usual management of production areas in the ...

In Rio Grande do Sul state, the Alfisols areas are predominantly cultivated with irrigated rice, however, the monoculture of rice can complicate the use of these areas for rice crop. An alternative to this is the use of ...