Problems associated with annual grain agriculture, such as soil erosion and water and air pollution, indicate that reliance on annual grain production is a fundamental problem of current agricultural practice (23). Annual plant roots are less efficient micromanagers of water, soil, and soil nutrients than their perennial counterparts, resulting in nutrient and pesticide contamination of water s...

Vegetative filter strip characteristics such as perenniality drive hydrology and subsequent ecosystem services. However, the extent potential for forage–biomass crops to improve water quality, provide fodder, optimize nutrient cycling in multifunctional systems is unknown. We evaluated (a) how species, perenniality, plant community composition are linked quality; (b) multiuse of strips. Whole p...

The Lr19/Sr25 genes in 7DS-7DL-7Ae#1L translocation (from Thinopyrum ponticum Podp) and Lr37/Sr38/Yr17/Cre5/Rkn3 Aegilops ventricosa Tausch) attract the attention of bread wheat breeders by their resistance to leaf stem rust pathogens, as well a positive effect on agronomical important traits. However, combination these translocations is poorly understood. In presented study, agronomic performa...