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Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance

open access: yesScience, 2013
Honeybees Can't Do It Alone The majority of food crops require pollination to set fruit with the honeybee providing a pollination workhorse, with both feral and managed populations an integral component of crop management (see the Perspective by ...
L. Garibaldi   +49 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Health risks of heavy metals in contaminated soils and food crops irrigated with wastewater in Beijing, China.

open access: yesEnvironmental Pollution, 2008
Consumption of food crops contaminated with heavy metals is a major food chain route for human exposure. We studied the health risks of heavy metals in contaminated food crops irrigated with wastewater.
S. Khan   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

REAL AND PERCEIVED DAMAGE BY WILD TURKEYS: A LITERATURE REVIEW

open access: yesWildlife Society Bulletin, 2015
: As populations of wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo; hereafter, turkeys) have increased, number of complaints about damage to agricultural crops and other resources has increased. To better understand this, we conducted a literature review to determine
Scott R. Groepper   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in Plant Agriculture: A One Health Perspective

open access: yesAgriculture, 2022
Bactericides, fungicides, and other pesticides play an important role in the management of plant diseases. However, their use can result in residues on plants and in the environment, with potentially detrimental consequences.
Sally A. Miller   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Heat and Drought Stresses in Crops and Approaches for Their Mitigation

open access: yesFrontiers in Chemistry, 2018
Drought and heat are major abiotic stresses that reduce crop productivity and weaken global food security, especially given the current and growing impacts of climate change and increases in the occurrence and severity of both stress factors. Plants have
M. Lamaoui   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Analyzing Disease and Pest Dynamics in Steppe Crop Using Structured Data

open access: yesIEEE Access
In this study, an analysis of the spectral brightness coefficients (SBC) of agricultural crops in the steppe regions of Kazakhstan was carried out using remote field and space measurements during the growing season.
Jamalbek Tussupov   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Metabolomic Analysis Reveals Nutritional Diversity among Three Staple Crops and Three Fruits

open access: yesFoods, 2022
More than 2 billion people worldwide are under threat of nutritional deficiency. Thus, an in-depth comprehension of the nutritional composition of staple crops and popular fruits is essential for health.
Yunxia Shi   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biofortified Crops Generated by Breeding, Agronomy, and Transgenic Approaches Are Improving Lives of Millions of People around the World

open access: yesFrontiers in Nutrition, 2018
Biofortification is an upcoming, promising, cost-effective, and sustainable technique of delivering micronutrients to a population that has limited access to diverse diets and other micronutrient interventions.
M. Garg   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Biosensors: A Sneak Peek into Plant Cell’s Immunity

open access: yesLife, 2021
Biosensors are indispensable tools to understand a plant’s immunity as its spatiotemporal dimension is key in withstanding complex plant immune signaling.
Valentina Levak   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Combining UAV-Based Multispectral and Thermal Images to Diagnosing Dryness Under Different Crop Areas on the Loess Plateau

open access: yesAgriculture
Dryness is a critical limiting factor for achieving high agricultural productivity on China’s Loess Plateau (LP). High-precision, field-scale dryness monitoring is essential for the implementation of precision agriculture.
Juan Zhang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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