Fertility building strategies during the conversion period – assessment of performance in a stockless field vegetable rotation [PDF]
, 2002 This report was presented at the UK Organic Research 2002 Conference of the Colloquium of Organic Researchers (COR). Nutrient off-takes, residue returns and nutrient inputs were measured during and after conversion from a conventional arable system to ...
Harlock, Simon +2 more
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Core reference sets of sorghum and musa : from a whole collection to a mini core collection and back (W291) [PDF]
, 2011 The core approach for investigating genetic diversity in a crop germplasm collection has proven merits, among which the possibility to choose a sample of manageable size (e.g.
Arnaud, Elizabeth +7 more
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Evaluation of a generic agro-hydrological model for water and nitrogen dynamics (SMCR_N) in the soil–wheat system [PDF]
, 2010 Agro-hydrological models have widely been used for optimizing resources use in agriculture for maximum crop growth and minimum environmental consequences.
Zhang, Kefeng
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Embedding Diversity: Communication and Label Concept for Underutilized Crops – Checklist for your First Evaluation [PDF]
, 2018 There are some very successful cases of marketing of underutilized crops in European countries. Examples are the marketing of rare varieties in Austrian and Swiss supermarkets.
Förster, Iris +2 more
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The interplay between societal concerns and the regulatory frame on GM crops in the European Union [PDF]
, 2006 Recapitulating how genetic modification technology and its agro-food products aroused strong societal opposition in the European Union, this paper demonstrates how this opposition contributed to shape the European regulatory frame on GM crops.
De Waele, Danny +3 more
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EFSA Journal, 2018 In accordance with Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005, the applicants Bayer CropScience Europe and Oxon Italia S.p.A. submitted requests to the competent national authority in Spain and Italy, respectively, to modify the existing maximum residue ...
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) +25 more
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A framework for a European network for a systematic environmental impact assessment of genetically modified organisms (GMO) [PDF]
, 2012 The assessment of the impacts of growing genetically modified (GM) crops remains a major political and scientific challenge in Europe. Concerns have been raised by the evidence of adverse and unexpected environmental effects and differing opinions on the
Andersen, Erling +37 more
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Arbuscular mycorrhiza as part of sustainable agriculture [PDF]
, 2008 Here we present some results from two studies of mycorrhizal functioning in conventional vs.
Hurme, Timo +2 more
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Modification of the existing maximum residue levels for penthiopyrad in stone fruits and cereals
EFSA Journal, 2016 In accordance with Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005, the evaluating Member States (EMS), France and Bulgaria, sent an application to modify the existing maximum residue levels (MRL) for the active substance penthiopyrad in apricots, peaches ...
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
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Evaluation of the risks of contaminating low erucic acid rapeseed with high erucic rapeseed and identification of mitigation strategies [PDF]
, 2019 High erucic acid rapeseed (HEAR) oil is under increasing demand for various industrial applications. However, many growers are concerned that if they grow the crop, they will not be able to revert to other rapeseed varieties in the future due to the risk
Bennett +22 more
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