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Weeds in a changing climate: Competitors or service plants?

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Reducing herbicide use and preparing agroecosystems for climate change are two top priorities on the global policy agenda. Here, we explore whether these two challenges can be tackled simultaneously. While weeds are generally considered a threat to crop production, we show that weeds can help overcome climate change challenges in agroecosystems ...
Marie J. Zwetsloot, Marie‐Charlotte Bopp, Lammert Bastiaans, Elena Kazakou, Aurélie Metay, Gabriel Y. K. Moinet, Karim Barkaoui, Guillaume Fried, Léo Garcia, Merel Hofmeijer, Martine van der Ploeg, Maria Stefania Przybylska, Gerlinde B. De Deyn   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nutrient Use Efficiency and Cucumber Productivity as a Function of the Nitrogen Fertilization Rate and the Wood Fiber Content in Growing Media

Plants
A peat substrate is made from peat from drained peatlands, which is a limited resource. A realistic estimate is that 50% of the world’s wetlands have been lost.
Rita Čepulienė, Lina Marija Butkevičienė, Vaida Steponavičienė   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A time for every season: soil aggregate turnover stimulates decomposition and reduces carbon loss in grasslands managed for bioenergy

GCB Bioenergy, 2016
A primary goal of many next‐generation bioenergy systems is to increase ecosystem services such as soil carbon (C) storage and nutrient retention. Evaluating whether bioenergy management systems are achieving these goals is challenging in part because ...
Elizabeth M. Bach, Kirsten S. Hofmockel
doaj   +1 more source

Compost and fertilizer mineralization effects on soil and harvest in parkland agroforestry systems in the south-Sudanese zone of Burkina Faso [PDF]

, 2007
Decomposition of, and the subsequent nutrient release from tree leaf litter as well as external inputs of nutrients are important in the traditional agroforestry parklands of West Africa. The management of nutrient resources is essential to optimize crop
Gnankambary, Zacharia
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Exploring eco‐evolutionary and temporal patterns of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities colonizing Sorghum bicolor across sites of contrasting land use history and climate

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Sorghum bicolor is a globally important cereal crop with annual yields exceeding 50 million tons across more than 100 countries and can be grown on marginal lands where conventional agriculture is limited. We examined how eight genetically diverse sorghum genotypes shaped arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) community assembly across two contrasting ...
Philip Brailey‐Crane, Sedona M. Spann, Thomas H. Pendergast IV, Ben J. Long, Ashton K. Brinkley, Sarah R. Mondibrown, Nancy C. Johnson, Katrien M. Devos, Jeffrey L. Bennetzen   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rural-urban transformation shapes oasis agriculture in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains

Scientific Reports
Traditional agricultural activities and rural livelihoods in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains are rapidly changing. This is triggered by increasing rural-urban interactions and new livelihood opportunities in cities.
Youness Boubou, Kira Fastner, Andreas Buerkert   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rotating Intercrops in Continuous Maize Cultivation: Interaction Between Main Crop, Intercrops, and Weeds

Agronomy
Continuous cropping leads to declines in soil productivity and biodiversity, as well as a deterioration of overall phytosanitary conditions. What if we rotate the intercrops instead of the main crops?
Austėja Švereikaitė, Jovita Balandaitė, Ugnius Ginelevičius, Aušra Sinkevičienė, Rasa Kimbirauskienė, Lina Juodytė, Kęstutis Romaneckas   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of strategies to increase commercial production of mohair and cashmere in Australia

, 2009
We aimed to identify impediments to investing into mohair and cashmere production and to suggest programs and strategies to attract investors. Targeted interviews of people focussed on attributes of an investment opportunity.
Chaffey, S., McGregor, B. A.
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Toxicity of aqueous extracts of Ilex paraguariensis A.St.‐Hil. about Euphorbia heterophylla L.

Pest Management Science, EarlyView.
Aqueous extracts of Ilex paraguariensis A.St.‐Hil. strongly inhibit Euphorbia heterophylla L. germination and early seedling growth, but show mild phytotoxicity on mature plants, paradoxically promoting biomass via antioxidants. Abstract BACKGROUND The escalating challenge of herbicide‐resistant weeds, exemplified by Euphorbia heterophylla L.
Tamara Alberton da Silva, Ikram Bashir, Ana Caroline Giacomin, Jéssica Adriane Barth, Marina Chiapperin, Fabieli Zanotelli de Oliveira, Camila Thaís Scheibler, Fernanda Bruxel, Elisete Maria de Freitas   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Farm enterprises as self-organizing systems: A new transdisciplinary framework for studying farm enterprises? [PDF]

, 2003
The growing attention to sustainable food production and multifunctional agriculture calls for a multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary research and development perspective on farming, which is able to grasp the environmental, social, technical, and ...
Alrøe, Hugo Fjelsted, Noe, Egon
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