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The association between climate-smart agriculture practices adoption and farm income and wealth of small-scale urban crop farmers in eThekwini municipality, with implications for food and nutrition security [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Nutrition
IntroductionSouth Africa is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change due to its reliance on climate-sensitive livelihoods and limited adaptive capacity.
Nolwazi Z. Khumalo   +2 more
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Reconnecting Farmers with Nature through Agroecological Transitions: Interacting Niches and Experimentation and the Role of Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems

open access: yesAgriculture, 2022
Sustainability transitions in agriculture are explored through an analysis of niche initiatives within a common production system, relying on sustainable transitions, multi-level perspectives, and agroecological frameworks, and involving multi-actor ...
Cynthia Giagnocavo   +8 more
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Trichoderma- from lab bench to field application: Looking back over 50 years

open access: yesFrontiers in Agronomy, 2022
Biological control of plant pathogens has become increasingly possible with the use of fungi, which have a high reproductive rate (both sexually and asexually) and a short generation time and are very specific to their target.
Pranab Dutta, Lipa Deb, Abhay K. Pandey
doaj   +1 more source

Epistatic association mapping in homozygous crop cultivars. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2011
The genetic dissection of complex traits plays a crucial role in crop breeding. However, genetic analysis and crop breeding have heretofore been performed separately.
Hai-Yan Lü   +3 more
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Genome-wide association mapping in hairy vetch (Vicia villosa) discovers a large effect locus controlling seed dormancy

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2023
Hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth), a winter-hardy annual legume, is a promising cover crop. To fully leverage its potential, seed production and field performance of V. villosa must be improved to facilitate producer adoption.
Neal Tilhou   +14 more
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Leveraging National Germplasm Collections to Determine Significantly Associated Categorical Traits in Crops: Upland and Pima Cotton as a Case Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2022
Observable qualitative traits are relatively stable across environments and are commonly used to evaluate crop genetic diversity. Recently, molecular markers have largely superseded describing phenotypes in diversity surveys.
Daniel Restrepo-Montoya   +10 more
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Detection of Citrus Psyllid Based on Improved YOLOX Model

open access: yesGuangdong nongye kexue, 2022
【Objective】Yellow-shoot disease, known as the cancer of citrus, is a devastating disease, and psyllid is the main vector of yellow-shoot disease transmission, therefore, monitoring and precise disinfection and sterilization of psyllid is an effective way
Haiman WANG   +7 more
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UAV Multispectral Imaging Potential to Monitor and Predict Agronomic Characteristics of Different Forage Associations

open access: yesAgronomy, 2021
The capability of UAVs imagery to monitor and predict the evolution of several forage associations was assessed during the whole growing cycle of 2019–20.
Javier Plaza   +5 more
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Produção da capuchinha em cultivo solteiro e consorciado com os repolhos verde e roxo sob dois arranjos de plantas Yield of nasturtium in monocrop and intercropped with 'green' and 'purple' cabbage under two arrangements of plants

open access: yesCiência e Agrotecnologia, 2008
Objetivou-se, neste trabalho, estudar a produção de flores da capuchinha e das " cabeças" do repolho, cultivadas como culturas solteiras e consorciadas.
Ademir Antunes Moraes   +4 more
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Overview of Cannabis including Kampo Medicine and Therapy for Treatment of Dementia: A Review

open access: yesFrontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
Cannabis sativa L. is an annual herb oldest cultivated plants as a source of fiber since about 5000 B.C. On the other hand, the cannabis flower and seed are listed in Shennong’s classic Materia Medica approximately 2000 years ago. The formulas prescribed
Tibor Wenger   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

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