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Maria Goufa, Evaggelos Makeroufas, Maria Gerakari, Efi Sarri, Athanasios Ragkos, Penelope J. Bebeli, Alma Balestrazzi and Eleni Tani
Little progress has been made in translating the increased awareness of neglected and underutilized crops into a viable tool for advancing not just sustainable development in rural areas but also sustainable agricultural and secured food systems. This is...
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María Isabel López-Román, Lucía De la Rosa, Teresa Marcos-Prado and Elena Ramírez-Parra
Legumes play an essential role in sustainable agriculture due to their ability to fix nitrogen and high protein content. Vicia is a relevant genus of the Fabaceae family that includes important crop species, such as V. faba and V. sativa, but also other ...
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Ioannis Anestis, Elias Pipinis, Stefanos Kostas, Eleftherios Karapatzak, Eleftherios Dariotis, Veroniki Paradeisopoulou, Vasileios Greveniotis, Georgios Tsoktouridis, Stefanos Hatzilazarou and Nikos Krigas
The ex situ conservation and sustainable exploitation of neglected or underutilized plant species (NUPs) is an urgent and vital endeavor. To this end, we focused on Petromarula pinnata (Campanulaceae), a vulnerable local plant endemic to Crete (Greece) t...
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Janet Adeyinka Adebo
The world is facing the global challenges of insecurity, poverty and climate change, which can impede food availability, production and nutritional security. Due to these factors, the production and availability of crop species such as legumes, pulses an...
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Bijay Regmi, Samir Kunwar, Tri Dev Acharya and Purushottam Gyawali
Malnutrition, hunger, and rural poverty in Nepal are prevalent issues that have been exacerbated by the negative impacts of climate change on crop production. To create a more sustainable and resilient food system, it is crucial to explore alternative op...
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Theresa Reinhardt Piskácková and Miroslav Jursík
In order to achieve integrated weed management, precision timing is just as important an aspect to consider as spatial precision: the stage of the plant at the time of action will impact its successful control or survivability and thus the selection pres...
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Lwando Mbambalala, Zikhona Theodora Rani, Thamsanqa Doctor Empire Mpanza, Makiwa Simeon Mthana, Lusanda Ncisana and Ntuthuko Raphael Mkhize
The agricultural sector receives substantial support from livestock, which greatly contributes to the well-being of rural communities. Livestock offers animal-derived products, such as meat and milk, which serve as abundant protein sources for human cons...
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Alidou Sawadogo, Louis Kouadio, Farid Traoré, Sander J. Zwart, Tim Hessels and Kemal Sulhi Gündogdu
Traditional methods based on field campaigns are generally used to assess the performance of irrigation schemes in Burkina Faso, resulting in labor-intensive, time-consuming, and costly processes. Despite their extensive application for such performance ...
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Ezgi Ogutcen, Anamika Pandey, Mohd Kamran Khan, Edward Marques, R. Varma Penmetsa, Abdullah Kahraman and Eric J. B. Von Wettberg
In wild habitats, fruit dehiscence is a critical strategy for seed dispersal; however, in cultivated crops it is one of the major sources of yield loss. Therefore, indehiscence of fruits, pods, etc., was likely to be one of the first traits strongly sele...
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Juliana Iwuchukwu,Cynthia Nwobodo,Charles Ezema,Christopher Udoye
The study examined the value addition practices and challenges of African yam bean (Sphenostylis stenocarpa) farmers in Enugu State of Nigeria. Multistage sampling technique was adopted in selecting a total of seventy two (72) respondents used for the st...
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