Biotechnology has had an important impact on the agricultural and food industries over the last twelve years by way of fast and extensive adoption of a few genetically modified (GM) crops. This has produced large efficiency gains, including higher yields and reduced costs of weed and pest control, as well as some environmental benefits. The expected development of crops with additional agronomi...

Timely and accurate yield forecasts prior to and during the milling season present opportunities to improve various industry activities, such as milling operations, international trade and agronomic optimisation. The Canesim model-based yield forecasting system was used to quantify prediction skills at different times of the year, using historic climate data and a history of seasonal climate ou...

introduction intercropping plays an important role in agriculture because of beneficial interactions. intercropping of legumes and cereals is an old practice in tropical agriculture dating back to ancient civilization. cereals and other plant intercrops could substantially increase forage quantity and quality and decrease the requirement for protein supplements. intercropping of cereals and oth...

Rainfed agriculture occupies 68% of India’s cultivated area and supports 40% of the human and 60% of the livestock population. It produces 445 of the food requirement, thus has and will continue to play a critical role in India’s food security. However, aberrant behaviour of monsoon rainfall, eroded and degraded soils with multiple nutrient and water deficiencies, declining ground water table a...

Identification of genes for yield components, plant height (PH), and yield-related physiological traits and tightly linked molecular markers is of great importance in marker-assisted selection (MAS) in wheat breeding. In the present study, 246 F8 RILs derived from the cross of Zhou 8425B/Chinese Spring were genotyped using the high-density Illumina iSelect 90K single nucleotide polymorphism (SN...

Ramie is an important fiber feed dual-purpose crop in China and plays role the national economy. However, ramie yield quality can be reduced after many years of continuous cultivation. Currently, relatively little research has been conducted on rhizosphere metabolites their pathways cropping. Therefore, a healthy group (CK) obstacle groups (XZQG, JZ, DJY, GXD) with 8 cultivation were selected f...

Soil and climatic conditions in West Shoa are on the margins of agricultural capability due to low soil fertility acidity. The overall objective this work was develop guidelines for production barley shoa, with goal establishing modern cropping recommendations. We conducted a 3-year study Welmera Wereda examine effect seeding rate Urea (N) fertilization malt (Hordeum vulgare L.) yield component...

Conservation farming (CF) offers a set of sustainable agronomic practices for Zambian smallholder farmers using either hand hoe or animal draft tillage. The CF package includes dry-season land preparation using minimum tillage methods (hand hoe basins or ADP ripping), crop residue retention, precision input application (in a precise grid of planting basins or along rip lines), and nitrogen-fixi...

A total of 18 rainfed upland New Rice for Africa (NERICA) varieties were categorized as the heavy panicle and low tillering types and early heading, in compared with 32 different varieties. These chromosome components were clarified using 243 SSR markers which showed polymorphism among NERICA varieties and their parents, CG 14 (O. glaberrima Steud.) and one of the recurrent parents, WAB-56-104 ...

Objective: Field experiment was conducted in 2009 to investigate the effects of plant density and weed interference on morphological characteristics and yield of corn (Zea Mays, L.) at Research Station of University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran. Methods: The experiment was arranged as split plot based on randomized complete block design with three replications. Plant density (D1, D2, D3 and D4: 5, 7...