CRP 3.5 is a comprehensive proposal built around combined research on eight grain legumes (GLs) – groundnut, soybean, chickpea, cowpea, common bean, pigeon pea, lentil, and faba bean – proposed by four CGIAR Centres (ICARDA, ICRISAT, IITA and CIAT) and by several NARES (India, Brazil, Turkey and Ethiopia). These crops are important dietary staples and sources of income for farmers in many, low ...

Kislev et al. (Reports, 2 June 2006, p. 1372) described Neolithic parthenocarpic fig fruits and proposed that they derive from trees propagated only by cuttings and thus represent the first domesticated plant of the Neolithic Revolution. Because parthenocarpic fig trees naturally produce both seeded and seedless fruits and are capable of spontaneous reproduction, we argue that the finds do not ...

1 Laboratory of Tropical Crop Improvement, Catholic University of Leuven, K Mercierlaan 92, 3001 Hever/ee, Belgium 2ARC Grain Crops Institute, Private Bag X1251, Potchefstroom, 2520 South Africa 3Department of Nematology, Agricultural Research Organisation, The Volcani Centre, Bel Dagan, Israel 4National Col/ection of Nematodes, Biosystematics Division, ARC Plant Protection Research Institute, ...

In 1987, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA-ARS) National Sedimentation Laboratory, in cooper­ ation with the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experi­ ment Station (MAFES) and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), initiated an interdisciplinary research project to develop profitable and environmentally sustainable conservation production systems for silty upland...

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is the fifth important cereal crop after wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), maize (Zea mays L.), rice (Oryza sativa L.), and barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) in the world. It is cultivated in about 46 million ha with a total production of 62 million t (FAO 1998). Asia and Africa account 86% of the total area under sorghum, but their contribution towards total product...

Li-Juan Zhou, Lang-Tao Xiao, and Hong-Wei Xue National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 200032 Shanghai, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100049 Beijing, China Hunan Provinci...

Subsoiling a compacted soil should loosen it, improve the physical conditions, and increase nutrient availability and crop yields. The aim of this work is to compare the effects of different tillage and fertility treatments in a loamy Typic Hapludoll soil, and to determine the interactions of N fertilization with several soil properties and dryland corn (Zea mays L.) productivity. The experimen...

During combine harvesting of 5 various cereal crops (rye, barley, oats, buckwheat, corn) 24 samples of grain and 24 samples of settled grain dust were collected on farms located in the Lublin province of eastern Poland. The samples were examined for the concentration of total microfungi, Fusarium species, deoxynivalenol (DON), nivalenol (NIV), and ochratoxin A (OTA). Microfungi able to grow on ...

. . .Because of the interrelationships among crops, a major shortfall in the U.S. harvest could tip global grain and soy markets into chaos. It would affect the prices of food made directly from these commodities, such as bread, pasta and tortillas, and food made indirectly, such as pork, poultry, beef, milk and eggs. . . ‘The rest of the world is less able to pay high prices for food. What’s a...