Environmental pollution, quality problems and economic constraints require decreasing the use of pesticides in agriculture. To do so, integrated crop protection aims at developing new strategies that take into account the effects of the agricultural practices on the epidemics development. This requires predicting the development of the epidemics under particular crop practices. This, in turn, r...

Metabolomics is the “omics” that studies the whole metabolome. It has a wide range of applications, inter alia chemotaxonomy, environmental influences, agriculture, etc. Here we review the application of metabolomics in natural product research. The importance of physicochemical properties to drug delivery are discussed in relation to turning metabolomic studies towards drug discovery. We belie...

isotopic and nuclear techniques play an important role in food and agriculture, health and industry. in the agricultural sciences and food technology sectors, recent research has elucidated the new potential application of radiation for microbial decontamination, food preservation, improve the nutritional quality of  foods  and effectively utilise its potential as human food or animal feed. the...

iran is ranked fourth for saline-sodic soils in asia following china, india and pakistan. therefore, if coupled with waterlogging, drainage would be an inevitable and indispensable activity agriculture in most irrigated parts of iran. drain installation depth is one of the main economic as well as environmental challenges in design and construction of drainage systems. deep pipe drain installat...

Data quality is a common concern in a wide range of domains. Since agriculture plays an important role in the Brazilian economy, it is crucial that the data be useful and with a proper level of quality for the decision making process, planning activities, among others. Nevertheless, this requirement is not often taken into account when different systems and databases are modeled. This work pres...

Indicators of land quality (LQIs) are being developed as a means to better coordinate actions on land related issues, such as land degradation. Economic and social indicators are already in regular use to support decision making at global, national and sub-national levels and in some cases for air and water quality, but few such indicators are available to assess, monitor and evaluate changes i...

intelligent use of data and information in a large company for management decisions are the essential requirements of all managers. in addition, the necessity of paying attention to the environmental competitiveness increases the importance of responding to these needs. information systems and tools of it in recent decades have played a special role in increasing the respond to these demands. o...

Key Laboratory of Subtropical Agriculture Resource and Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Resource and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China; Department of Resource and Environmental Information Science and Engineering, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China; Department of Geography and Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering, ...

Rivers are discussed as sources of water supply for various uses including agriculture, industry anddrinking. Thus, monitoring the quality of these resources due to the recent drought and urban and ruraldevelopment is one of the important tasks in the field of environmental management. In this study,nine stations sampled seasonally the Karoon river, Dez, Karkheh in a one-year period from Octobe...