Growing industrial crops on marginal lands has been proposed as a strategy to minimize competition for arable land and food production. This study can bring an advancement to knowledge on the suitability of certain industrial crops to marginal and contaminated soils to mitigate indirect land‐use change (i‐LUC) in accordance with the RED II and to meet ...
Danilo Scordia +18 more
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Apple replant disease (ARD) impacts the economic yield of orchards by physiological and morphological suppression of apple trees on replanted soils. The complexity of replant disease caused by a plethora of biological interactions and physical properties
Ulrike Cavael +5 more
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Composite carbon materials from winery composted waste for the treatment of effluents contaminated with ketoprofen and 2-nitrophenol [PDF]
The present work consisted of preparing and characterizing composite carbon materials (WRCC) from raw winery residues (WR) activated with zinc chloride to produce a carbon adsorbent.
Dotto, Guilherme Luiz +6 more
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Supplemental macronutrients and microbial fermentation products improve the uptake and transport of foliar applied zinc in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) plants. Studies utilizing micro X-ray florescence. [PDF]
Enhancing nutrient uptake and the subsequent elemental transport from the sites of application to sites of utilization is of great importance to the science and practical field application of foliar fertilizers.
Cliff eRamsier +9 more
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Society issues, painkiller solutions, dependence and sustainable agriculture [PDF]
Mahatma Gandhi listed seven blunders of humanity: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Commerce without morality, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles, Knowledge without character, and Science without humanity.
CK Winter +4 more
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Sustainable agriculture as a central science to solve global society issues [PDF]
Serious global issues such as poverty, illness, food prices, climate changes, global market, pollution, pest adaptation and resistance, soil degradation, decreasing biodiversity and desertification can be explained by the increasing artificialization of ...
E. Lichtfouse, E. Lichtfouse, J.L. Araus
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The performance of the EU-Rotate_N model in predicting the growth and nitrogen uptake of rotations of field vegetable crops in a Mediterranean environment [PDF]
The EU-Rotate_N model was developed as a tool to estimate the growth and nitrogen (N) uptake of vegetable crop rotations across a wide range of European climatic conditions and to assess the economic and environmental consequences of alternative ...
A. VENEZIA +12 more
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Microorganisms are only effective when adequate conditions for their survival and development are provided. Among the factors that influence its effectiveness includes the type of soil or culture substrate, which works as an energy source reserve ...
Jose Luis Ruiz, Maria del Carmen Salas
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Climate change, society issues and sustainable agriculture [PDF]
Despite its prediction 100 years ago by scientists studying CO2, man-made climate change has been officially recognised only in 2007 by the Nobel prize committee. Climate changes since the industrial revolution have already deeply impacted ecosystems.
A. Högbom +5 more
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Engaging farmers in climate change adaptation planning: Assessing intercropping as a means to support farm adaptive capacity [PDF]
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Himanen, Sari J. +3 more
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