There is disagreement internationally across major regulatory jurisdictions on the relevance and utility of whole food (WF) toxicity studies on GM crops, with no harmonization of data or regulatory requirements. The scientific value, and therefore animal ethics, of WF studies on GM crops is a matter addressable from the wealth of data available on commercialized GM crops and WF studies on irrad...

Interest in trap cropping, a traditional tool of pest management, has increased considerably in recent years. In this review we propose a broader definition of trap cropping that encompasses the inherent characteristics of the trap crop plants themselves as well as the strategies associated with their deployment. Inherent characteristics of a trap crop may include not only natural differential ...

In recent decades, there have been substantial increases in crop production in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as a result of higher yields, increased cropping intensity, expansion of irrigated cropping systems, and rainfed cropland expansion. Yet, to date much of the research focus of the impact of climate change on crop production in the coming decades has been on crop yield responses. In this study...

Agricultural crop, one of the biological entities, is sensitive to its environmental condition including various soil and crop inputs. Alteration in environmental condition causes reduction in crop productivity (such as crop yield and total biomass etc.). Ultra-modern technology such as, precision agriculture (PA) is capable to prevent crop damage and maintain crop productivity. PA is the techn...

An intensified farming system can significantly increase crop productivity but also cause major groundwater overdraft for irrigation and the loss of diversity. It is imperative to develop alternative rotations beyond simplified conventional winter wheat–summer maize (W–M) rotation alleviating over-extraction in China’s Huang-Huai Plain. This study systematically quantified water requirement (ET...