With the increase in the world population, expected to occur by the end of the century, there is a need to boost food production. The sustainable alternative to achieve higher production is to improve yield of agricultural ...

Maize (Zea Mays L.) grain yield have increased during the last decades and there is an ample range of rates of grain yield increments reported in the literature. Maize hybrids comparison at their optimum plant density might ...

The Rio Grande do Sul state is the main Brazilian rice producer (Oryza sativa L.). Despite continue increase of average rice yield in the last years, there is still a huge difference between yield experiments from rice ...

The objective of this work was to assess the spatial and temporal variability of sugarcane yield efficiency and yield gap in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, throughout 16 growing seasons, considering climate and soil as ...

As soybean yield continues to increase, it seems critical to know if there is a yield level at which potential contribution of indigenous nitrogen (N) sources (N fixation and soil mineralization) becomes insufficient to ...