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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023 Prior research suggests that greater spatial diversity in crops and land use is associated with higher crop yields and improved ecosystem function. However, what leads to the emergence of agricultural systems that meet both productivity and ecological ...
Katherine S. Nelson, Emily K. Burchfield
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Crop Species Production Diversity Enhances Revenue Stability in Low-Income Farm Regions of Mexico
Agriculture, 2022 Stabilizing farm revenues is a goal of agricultural policies around the world, especially in vulnerable regions with limited access to crop insurance. One potential pathway to revenue stability follows the agricultural “insurance hypothesis”, which holds
Matthew C. LaFevor
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Genetic Dissection of Root System Architectural Traits in Spring Barley
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019 Breeding new crop cultivars with efficient root systems carries great potential to enhance resource use efficiency and plant adaptation to unstable climates. Here, we evaluated the natural variation of root system architectural traits in a diverse spring
Zhongtao Jia +6 more
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Horticulturae, 2023 In recent decades, China has made significant strides in food and nutrition security, yet challenges persist in the western rural regions, especially in Guangxi. Farming households in this area face heightened vulnerability due to limited arable land and
Xinjian Chen +3 more
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Community Seed Banks in China: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 The rich agrobiodiversity of China is under unprecedented threat, experiencing a dramatic loss of many valuable local varieties and wild relatives of main crops.
Xin Song +3 more
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EVALUATION OF REGIONAL DIVERSIFICATION IN SOWN AREA STRUCTUREIN THE CONTEXT OF IMPACT ON THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT [PDF]
Annals of the Polish Association of Agricultural and Agribusiness Economists, 2017 In recent years many important changes have taken place in Polish agriculture. The aim of the paperwas to determine the diversity of the structure of sown area in the voivodships and its potential impacton the natural environment.
Mariusz Matyka
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Risks of irreversible biodiversity loss [PDF]
, 2019 Biodiversity is the driving force of ecosystem services and has been the foundation of agriculture for many, many years. The drastic evolution of agriculture over the past century in industrialised and some developing countries, based on improved ...
Hainzelin, Etienne
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Burial-induced changes in the seed preferences of carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
European Journal of Entomology, 2019 Seeds of many species of plants may survive for a long time in the soil and germinate when brought to the surface, but whether they are subsequently eaten by seed predators is unknown. We examined the preferences of three species of carabids (Coleoptera:
Pavel SASKA +3 more
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Plants, 2020 Water scarcity is the primary constraint on crop productivity in arid and semiarid tropical areas suffering from climate alterations; in accordance, agricultural systems have to be optimized.
Amparo Rosero +5 more
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Detecting major introgressions in wheat and their putative origins using coverage analysis
Scientific Reports, 2022 Introgressions from crop wild relatives (CWRs) have been used to introduce beneficial traits into cultivated plants. Introgressions have traditionally been detected using cytological methods.
Jens Keilwagen +6 more
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