The natural light conditions above the Arctic Circle are unique in terms of annual variation creating special growth for crop production. These include low solar elevations, very long daily photosynthetic periods, midnight sun/absence dark nights, and altered spectral distribution depending on elevation. All these factors known to affect metabolism plants, although their influence northern plan...

Insect pests are the major source of crop damage, yield and quality reduction in Pakistan and else where in the world. Cotton crop is the most hit crop in Pakistan followed by rice and the second most important foreign exchange earning crop. A wide variety of staple, horticultural and cash crops grown, reflect serious problems of many types of insect pests. To overcome the insect pest problem, ...

The unpredictability and large fluctuation of the climatic conditions in rainfed regions do affect spring wheat yield and grain quality. These variations offer the opportunity for the production of better quality wheat. The effect of variable years, locations and sowing managements on wheat grain yield and quality was studied through field experiments using three genotypes, three locations for ...

We hypothesize that biological diversification across ecological, spatial, and temporal scales maintains and regenerates the ecosystem services that provide critical inputs—such as maintenance of soil quality, nitrogen fixation, pollination, and pest control—to agriculture. Agrobiodiversity is sustained by diversified farming practices and it also supplies multiple ecosystem services to agricul...

INTRODUCTION Wheat farmers in Virginia and southeastern US could benefit greatly from the availability of a shortduration summer crop that could be produced during the period between wheat harvest in middle of June and before planting of the next wheat crop during October. Some wheat farmers plant soybean as a double crop system, but the productivity of double-cropped soybean is extremely low a...