Background: Crop wild relatives are wild species that are closely related to crops. They are valuable as potential gene donors for crop improvement and may help to ensure food security for the future. However, they are becoming increasingly threatened in the wild and are inadequately conserved, both in situ and ex situ. Information about the conservation status and utilisation potential of crop...

bling the input data may be a formidable task. Developing a user interface that incorporates these tools has As knowledge of crop growth and development is quantified, it been recognized as an essential step toward increasing can be included in the computer code of crop simulators that mimic the essential features of plant–soil–atmosphere–management interacthe utility of crop simulators and dec...

In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the potential of decision support tools for crop production. Attempts to provide such tools in the past 10 years have met with limited success. There are many inherently useful, scientifically valid, model-based tools currently gathering dust due to a lack of farmer interest. This paper discusses reasons for failure and explores the possi...

Implicit in discussions of plant nutrition and climate change is the assumption that we know what to do relative to nutrient management here and now but that these strategies might not apply in a changed climate. We review existing knowledge on interactive influences of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, temperature and soil moisture on plant growth, development and yield as well as on p...

Agricultural land use mapping and change detection are important for environmental assessment and crop yield estimation. An effective mapping and change detection of crop land use requires large image coverage with sufficient resolutions in spatial, spectral and temporal dimensions. But few earth observation sensors can solely collect image data that meet all these requirements. The MODIS (Mode...

In sorghum and mungbean – lentil cropping system, field experiments were conducted for three successive years to assess the effect of mung bean residue incorporation on sorghum and succeeding lentil productivity along with different doses of phosphorus (P; 0, 30, 60 kg ha−1) applied to these crops. The level of soil fertility was also tested with or without incorporation of mung bean residue. T...

Planning for the optimal use of productive resources in agricultural systems leads to the conservation in addition to the promotion of farmers’ socio-economical conditions. Being certain or precise in any decision making in agricultural planning is impossible. Fuzzy mathematical programming techniques, developed in recent decades, are the most appropriate and applicable approaches to include th...

Vermiwash (VW), a liquid extract obtained from vermicomposting beds, is used as an organic fertilizer for crop plants. The current study investigated the effect of a vermiwash foliar spray on the response of bhut jolokia (Capsicum assamicum) exposed to two different arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF: Rhizophagus irregularis, RI and G. mosseae, GM) in acidic soil under naturally ventilated green...