Muhammad Adnan SHAHID*, Rashad Mukhtar BALAL, Muhammad Aslam PERVEZ, Tahira ABBAS, Muhammad Anjum AQEEL, Muhammad Mansoor JAVAID, Francisco GARCIA-SANCHEZ Department of Horticulture, University College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan Institute of Horticultural Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan Department of Entomology, University College ...

1 Department of Arid Land Agriculture, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 2 Desert Agriculture Initiative, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, 3 Agriculture Genetic Engineering Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Giza, Egypt, 4 Department of Soil and Environmental Science, Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture, Multan, ...

*T. C. Caesar-TonThat and V.L. Cochran, USDA-ARS Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory, 1500 North Central, Sidney, MT 59270 *Corresponding author: [email protected]. ABSTRACT Loss of water stable aggregates due to excessive tillage has increased the potential for soil erosion in semiarid farming-systems. Fungi can be responsible for the resistance of soil aggregates to brea...

Conservation agriculture (CA) is promoted as a cropping system that has potential to alleviate poor crop yields in smallholder farming while protecting the environment. It involves maintenance of permanent soil cover, diverse crop rotations and/or interactions; and minimum soil disturbance. CA is associated with crop residue management challenges due to low crop biomass yields and crop-livestoc...

Paolo D’Odorico,* Gregory S. Okin and Brandon T. Bestelmeyer 1 Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA 2 Laboratory EFLUM, Faculte’ ENAC, Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland 3 Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA 4 USDA-ARS, Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, NM, 88003, USA