Water is one of the very important inputs necessary for production food crops hence, security and rural livelihoods are essentially linked to accessibility water. Eighty percent world’s global agricultural land area under rain-fed; this contributes 58% staple foods. In Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA), reliance on rain-fed agriculture high with 97% moisture needs fulfilled mainly by water stored i...

Citation: Pan WL, Schillinger WF, Young FL, Kirby EM, Yorgey GG, Borrelli KA, Brooks ES, McCracken VA, Maaz TM, Machado S, Madsen IJ, Johnson-Maynard JL, Port LE, Painter K, Huggins DR, Esser AD, Collins HP, Stockle CO and Eigenbrode SD (2017) Integrating Historic Agronomic and Policy Lessons with New Technologies to Drive Farmer Decisions for Farm and Climate: The Case of Inland Pacific Northw...

In Northern and Central Europe, short-rotation coppices (SRC) have become a profitable agricultural production alternative, particularly for marginal fields with suitable groundwater levels. The replacement of fossil fuels by the wood chips produced in SRC contributes to the mitigation of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Due to heterogeneous regional production conditions, the impacts on economy, produ...

Environmentally and economically viable agriculture requires a variety of cultivation practices and pest management options as no one system will be appropriate for every situation. Agrochemicals are some of the many pest control tools used in an integrated approach to pest management. They are applied with the intent of maximizing efficacy while minimizing off-site movement; however, their jud...

There is an increasing awareness that as a result of structural variation, a reference sequence representing a genome of a single individual is unable to capture all of the gene repertoire found in the species. A large number of genes affected by presence/absence and copy number variation suggest that it may contribute to phenotypic and agronomic trait diversity. Here we show by analysis of the...

Somatic embryogenesis and transformation systems are indispensable modern plant breeding components since they provide an alternative platform to develop control strategies against the plethora of pests and diseases affecting many agronomic crops. This review discusses some of the factors affecting somatic embryogenesis and transformation, highlights the advantages and limitations of these syst...

This paper discusses the success of an unintended area-wide integrated pest management (IPM) for Chilo suppressalis in Japan. Chilo was considered as one of the country’s major rice insect pests causing significant yield loss during the pre-war period, along with Scirpophaga incertulas . Chilo population density declined through the years, which was considered to be induced by modern farming te...

Improved management practices should be implemented in croplands sub-Saharan Africa to enhance soil organic carbon (SOC) storage and/or reduce losses associated with land-use change, thereby addressing the challenge of ongoing degradation. DayCent, a process-based biogeochemical model, provides useful tool for evaluating which are most effective SOC sequestration. Here, we used DayCent model si...