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Intentional and unintentional selection during plant domestication: herbivore damage, plant defensive traits and nutritional quality of fruit and seed crops
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2021-05)
Greater susceptibility to herbivory can arise as an effect of crop domestication. One proposed explanation is that defenses decreased intentionally or unintentionally during the domestication process, but evidence for this ...
Advances in oil crops research-classical and new approaches to achieve sustainable productivity
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2019-06)
The world production of main oil crops is steadily increasing, mainly due to population growth and increased use of oil crops in bio-fuel production and in edible vegetable oils. From the perspective of sowing area in the ...
Enzyme Activities as Indicators of Soil Quality: Response to Intensive Soybean and Rice Crops
(Springer, 2021-07)
Soil enzyme activities are often used as indicators of soil contamination. The responses of the activities of specific soil enzymes, dehydrogenase, acid phosphatase, β-glucosidase, carboxylesterase, and urease to different ...
Field assessment of soil biological and chemical quality in response to crop management practices
(Springer, 2008-11-19)
Soil microbiological and chemical aspects were evaluated to determine the effects of conservation tillage and crop rotation on soil fertility over a 16-year period. A field trial was established to compare two cropping ...
Accumulation of lead and associated metals (Cu and Zn) at different growth stages of soybean crops in lead-contaminated soils: food security and crop quality implications
(Springer Verlag Berlín, 2017-02)
The Pb, Cu and Zn content, the physicochemical parameters in soils (EC, OM%, soil texture and pH) and the metal accumulation of Glycine max plants at different growth stages were evaluated. Topsoil and soybean samples were ...
Chapter 1 - Maize
(Academic Press, 2020-12)
Maize is presently the grain crop that covers the largest cultivated area, has the largest production, and the largest grain yield worldwide. In recent years, maize occupied an important part of the land previously cropped ...
Long-term fertilizer application and cover crops improve soil quality and soybean yield in the Northeastern Pampas region of Argentina
(Elsevier Science, 2021-03)
Long-term improvements in soil quality through cover crops (CC) and fertilizer management may provide resilience for temporal water stresses in cropping sequences based on soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.]. The objectives ...
Effect of diffuse pollution on water quality in mountain forest streams
(MedCrave, 2017-07-07)
Agriculture is the main source of surface and groundwater pollution. It increases suspended solids and organic matter concentration with the subsequent eutrophication. Citrus and sugarcane are the predominant crops in the ...
Crop management affects dry-milling quality of flint maize kernels
(Elsevier, 2011-05)
Dry-milling performance of maize (Zea mays, L.) kernels primarily depends on their hardness. The flint type is harder than the dent and semi-dent maize, yielding a higher proportion of big endosperm pieces in the mill. ...
Cropping system-imposed yield gap: Proof of concept on soybean cropping systems in Uruguay
(Elsevier Science, 2021-01)
Favorable weather conditions prevailing on most South American Pampas allows to grow more than one crop per year. Indeed, increasing crop intensity per unit area has been highlighted as an opportunity to increase crop ...