Ryo Sugiura , Shogo Tsuda , Seiji Tamiya , Atsushi Itoh , Kentaro Nishiwaki , Noriyuki Murakami , Yukinori Shibuya , Masayuki Hirafuji , Stephen Nuske c a Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, 9-4 Shinseiminami, Memuro, Kasai, Hokkaido 082-0081, Japan b Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai...

(1) IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria, (2) INRA, Paris, France, (3) CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, (4) Gund Institute, University of Vermont, Burlington, USA, (5) University of Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine, (6) CSIRO, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, St Lucia, Australia, (7) Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of A...

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Although tropical forests cover only 6% of Earth's arable surface, they account for nearly 50% of all known species (National Research Council, 1992). Despite this diversity, these systems are increasingly threatened, as exemplified by a recent Food and Agriculture Organization report (FAa, 1999) which indicates that tropical countries are losing 127,300 km2 of forest annually; this does not co...

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Cooperative Research Centre for Plant Science, GPO Box 475, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia (M.K.U.); Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Division of Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia (M.K.U., W.J.P., E.S.D.); United States Department of Agriculture Biosciences Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 5874,...

The agINFRA project focuses on the production of interoperable data in agriculture, starting from the vocabularies and Knowledge Organization Systems (KOSs) used to describe and classify them. In this paper we report on our first steps in the direction of publishing agricultural Linked Open Data (LOD), focusing in particular on germplasm data and soil data, which are still widely missing from t...

This paper outlines a research program comparing the economic organization of agriculture in the United States and European Union. Both have highly developed agricultural sectors but their organizational arrangements vary widely. Comparative analysis not only provides a broad set of firms and industries to compare, but also highlights the interaction between the institutional environment and th...

Four Saudi Arabian indigenous sheep populations including Najdi, Hbsi, Arb, and Naemi were genotyped for 16 microsatellite markers recommended by the food and agriculture organization (FAO). This study aims to provide information on the genetic structure of the breeds analyzed and give indications and proposals for the cross breeding program. All loci were polymorphic in all populations and loc...