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Development and adoption of Kernza—A perennial grain crop for sustainable agriculture

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Annual cereal grains account for ~50% of human food calories, but cultivation of these crops has resulted in major environmental and social issues worldwide. For nearly three decades, researchers have been breeding intermediate wheatgrass—a perennial cool‐season grass—to serve as the world's first commercial‐scale perennial grain crop to improve ...
Jessica L. Gutknecht, James A. Anderson, George Annor, Prabin Bajgain, Timothy E. Crews, Colin Cureton, Lee DeHaan, Erin Meier, Tessa Peters, Valentín Picasso, Evelyn C. Reilly, Aaron Reser, Tara Ritter, Aubrey Streit Krug, Nicole Tautges, Jacob M. Jungers   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Solar farms can mitigate negative impacts of whiplash weather on plant communities in a dryland ecosystem

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Utility‐scale solar energy (USSE) development generates novel questions regarding coupling clean energy production with terrestrial ecosystem services (e.g., forage production, pollinator support). We found that a USSE array sited in a fallowed cropland maintained a reseeded native plant community even a decade post‐restoration and that the array ...
Caitlin Robertson, Amanda Gersoff, Seeta Sistla   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Soil inorganic carbon under no‐till dryland crop rotations

Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment, 2020
Soil inorganic carbon (SIC) constitutes a large proportion of soil total carbon (STC) under dryland cropping systems in arid and semiarid regions. Information on the effect of management practices on SIC is scarce.
Upendra M. Sainju, Brett L. Allen, Jalal D. Jabro, William B. Stevens   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pratylenchus neglectusReduces Yield of Winter Wheat in Dryland Cropping Systems [PDF]

Plant Disease, 2009
Wheat (Triticum aestivum) in low-precipitation regions of eastern Oregon and Washington is grown mostly as rainfed biennial winter wheat (10-month growing season) planted into cultivated fallow (14-month crop-free period). There are increasing trends for cultivated fallow to be replaced by chemical fallow and for spring cereals to be planted annually ...
Richard W, Smiley, Stephen, Machado
openaire   +2 more sources

Suitability of slightly saline irrigation for alleviating drought stress in taro and yam in Tonga: Implications for climate‐resilient Pacific cropping systems

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
There is an increasing risk of drought and salinisation of soil and groundwater globally, including in Pacific Island countries such as Tonga. Irrigating crops with slightly saline water, such as that produced by emerging desalination technologies, could help to alleviate droughts.
Harry Myrans, Mona E. Mahani, Lily McDonald, Vunivesi Minoneti, Hepisipa Lavaka, Salote Puletau, Viliami T. Manu, Juan F. Torres, Roslyn M. Gleadow, Steven Crimp   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Bt agave: why it is time to explore a new biotechnological frontier

Pest Management Science, EarlyView.
Drylands cover 41% of Earth, requiring sustainable crops. Agave, drought‐ and heat‐adapted, offers high‐value products with low water needs. Pests limit yield, yet Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) Cry proteins, successful in other plants, remain unexploited in Agave.
Aline Vitória Corim Marim, Marcelo Falsarella Carazzolle, Gonçalo Amarante Guimarães Pereira, Carolina Rossi De Oliveira   +3 more
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Riparian Failure: Damming and Flow Stabilization Exclude Cottonwood Colonization Along a Dryland River

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Marias River flows from Glacier National Park through northcentral Montana, and into the Missouri River. Annual flows gradually declined from 1902 to 2024 (~3.2%/decade) and the 1952 Tiber Dam and Lake Elwell reservoir were operated to attenuate peak flows and stabilize downstream flows year‐round.
Stewart B. Rood, Lori A. Goater
wiley   +1 more source

Intercropping—Towards an Understanding of the Productivity and Profitability of Dryland Crop Mixtures in Southern Australia

, 2023
Intercropping using mixtures of dryland crop species for grain or seed production was investigated in southern Australia across a range of rainfall zones over three years.
Ashley J. Wallace, Frank J. Henry, Meredith L. Mitchell, Kerry J. Stott, Uttam Khanal, Malcolm R. McCaskill, James G. Nuttall, Matthew D. May, Brendan P. Christy, Penny A. Riffkin, Garry J. O’Leary   +10 more
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A Methodological Pathway for Supporting the Transition From Theory to Practice in Action‐Oriented Research for Transformative Change

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over recent decades, action‐oriented research has gained prominence in co‐producing actionable knowledge to drive transformative change toward sustainability. However, further methodological developments are needed to support the transition to the application phase of such knowledge.
María D. López‐Rodríguez, Amanda Jiménez‐Aceituno, Enrica Garau, Cristina Quintas‐Soriano, Juan Miguel Requena‐Mullor, Lena Rölfer, María Mancilla García, Antonio J. Castro   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source