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Dorys T. Chirinos, Fernando Sánchez-Mora, Freddy Zambrano, Jessenia Castro-Olaya, Gregorio Vasconez, Galo Cedeño, Kevin Pin, Jeison Zambrano, Viviana Suarez-Navarrete, Vicente Proaño, Julio Mera-Macias and Carlos Vasquez
Corn (Zea mays L.) is an important cereal for food sovereignty, extensively planted due to its adaptation to various agroecological conditions. Climatic conditions and pests can affect its production. Concerning the latter, natural enemies could be consi...
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Waqas Mohy-Ud-Din, Muhammad Javed Akhtar, Safdar Bashir, Hafiz Naeem Asghar, Muhammad Farrakh Nawaz and Feng Chen
Glyphosate is a non-selective herbicide that is used to control perennial weeds in agriculture. However, its vast application may result in glyphosate residues in the food chain. Due to its toxicity to non-target organisms, glyphosate-contaminated soils ...
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Lena Wöhl, Thorsten Ruf, Christoph Emmerling, Jan Thiele and Stefan Schrader
Abundant and functionally diverse earthworm communities in perennials deliver ecosystem services like increasing nutrient availability by incorporating organic matter. This study aimed to analyse the decomposition of annual and perennial energy crop resi...
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Teerath Rai, Nicole Lee, Martin Williams II, Adam Davis, María B. Villamil and Hamze Dokoohaki
Field research for exploring the impact of winter cover crops (WCCs) integration into cropping systems is resource intensive, time-consuming and offers limited application beyond the study area. To bridge this gap, we used the APSIM model, to simulate co...
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Shankarappa Varalakshmi, Smrutishree Sahoo, Narendra Kumar Singh, Navneet Pareek, Priya Garkoti, Velmurugan Senthilkumar, Shruti Kashyap, Jai Prakash Jaiswal, Sherry Rachel Jacob and Amol N. Nankar
Teosinte is the closest wild ancestor of maize and is used as a valuable resource for taxonomical, evolutionary and genetic architectural studies of maize. Teosinte is also a repository of numerous diverse alleles for complex traits, including nutritiona...
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Zhaoquan He, Xue Shang and Tonghui Zhang
Water shortage threatens agricultural sustainability in Horqin Sandy Land, northeast China. To explore the effects of various surface mulching patterns with micro-spray irrigation on the yield, water consumption (ETc), and water-saving potential of maize...
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Ruth Njoroge, Abigael N. Otinga, John R. Okalebo, Mary Pepela and Roel Merckx
Deficiencies of secondary and micronutrients (SMNs) are major causes of low maize yields in poorly responsive soils. This phenomenon minimizes the agronomic efficiency of N, P and K fertilizers and consequently result in a dwindling economic benefit asso...
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Kul Khand, Jeppe Kjaersgaard, Christopher Hay and Xinhua Jia
Agricultural subsurface drainage changes the field hydrology and potentially the amount of water available to the crop by altering the flow path and the rate and timing of water removal. Evapotranspiration (ET) is normally among the largest components of...
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Florence Mtambanengwe, Hatirarami Nezomba, Tonny Tauro, Christopher Chagumaira, Muneta G. Manzeke and Paul Mapfumo
A two-year study was conducted to assess how mulch influences weed dynamics following imposition of different fertilization treatments under three crop establishment options: (i) conventional; (ii) ripping; and (iii) basin, in a two-year maize-legume rot...
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Márcio Viera,Mauro Valdir Schumacher,Isabel Sandra Kleinpaul
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5902/1980509810543Este estudo teve como objetivo determinar o estoque de nutrientes em povoamentos monoespecíficos e mistos de Eucalyptus urograndis e Acacia mearnsii em consórcio com Zea mays. A determinação da quantidade de n...
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