Organic Cotton Crop Guide - A manual for practitioners in the tropics [PDF]
, 2005 Designed primarily as a reference manual for extension workers and farmers, the Organic Cotton Crop Guide provides comprehensive practical know-how on organic cotton production in the tropics.
Eyhorn, Frank +2 more
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HTL/KAI2 signaling substitutes for light to control plant germination.
PLoS GeneticsPlants monitor multiple environmental cues, such as light and temperature, to ensure they germinate at the right time and place. Some specialist plants, like ephemeral fire-following weeds and root parasitic plants, germinate primarily in response to ...
Jenna E Hountalas +8 more
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Senecio vulgaris L. recorded as a new host plant for the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne luci
Acta Agriculturae Slovenica, 2020 Meloidogyne luci is a polyphagous plant parasitic nematode species with a potential to cause great losses in agricultural production. M. luci can parasitize over thirty important crop species as well as ornamentals, herbs and weeds.
Nik SUSIČ +3 more
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Preliminary study for testing the significance of butyl–iso–butyl phthalate in controlling faba bean broomrape [PDF]
Arab Universities Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2019 Due to deleterious impacts of broomrapes against the host plants, its combating is essential for sustaining crop productivity. Thus, two–year field trail was conducted at El Nubaria experimental farm, National Research Centre, Egypt, on two faba bean ...
Hani Saudy +4 more
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Inefficiency of manual weeding in rainfed rice systems affected by parasitic weeds [PDF]
Agricultural Economics, 2019 AbstractManual weeding is the predominant weed control practice and the most labor‐consuming activity in smallholder, rainfed rice systems in sub‐Saharan Africa. This study investigates the technical inefficiency of weeding labor, other labor, and overall inputs, and identifies sources of technical inefficiency of weeding labor in the context of ...
N'cho, Simon Akahoua +3 more
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The evolution of gregariousness in parasitoid wasps [PDF]
, 1998 Data are assembled on the clutch-size strategies adopted by extant species of parasitoid wasp. These data are used to reconstruct the history of clutch-size evolution in the group using a series of plausible evolutionary assumptions.
Brothers D. J. +9 more
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A Review on Agricultural Problems and Their Management in Ethiopia
Turkish Journal of Agriculture: Food Science and Technology, 2019 Ethiopia’s agricultural production has been challenged by waterlogging, salinity, acidity, parasitic weed, and irrigation scheduling problems which has resulted in lower yields than the potential.
Bulti Merga, Abdulatif Ahmed
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Populations of the Parasitic Plant Phelipanche ramosa Influence Their Seed Microbiota
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 Seeds of the parasitic weed Phelipanche ramosa are well adapted to their hosts because they germinate and form haustorial structures to connect to roots in response to diverse host-derived molecular signals. P.
Sarah Huet +8 more
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Plant parasitic nematodes - problems related to clover and organic farming [PDF]
, 2013 Organic farming puts new and exciting challenges to the science of nematology. The occurrence of plant parasitic nematodes in organic farming systems needs to be investigated further.
Holgado, R., Magnusson, C.
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Perspectives of Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation [PDF]
, 2009 Biological soil disinfestation is an environmentally friendly method to disinfest soil. From now on we refer to it as anaerobic soil disinfestation (ASD).
Bleeker, P.O. +3 more
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