Interactions between the water and nitrogen economies of crops Shortage of both water and nitrogen are widespread in the Australian cropping regions. The effects of water and nitrogen on biological…

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Applied Soil Ecology Monotonous rice-wheat cropping system with conventional management practices have resulted in declining soil quality and biota in addition to low input factor productivity and farmer’s profitability in…

The models based on thermal time concept have been widely applied to quantify the germination responses of seeds to temperature. The majority of these models assume a Normal distribution for…

Rainfed rice production in Lao PDR is critical to national food security; under traditional transplanting methods farmers are exposed to climate risks at both the onset and the conclusion of…

One of the key challenges for researchers is to obtain a deeper understanding of the strategies and mechanisms of plant adaptation to environmental stress that help overcome the limitations associated…

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Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops in 2017 The first 21 years of commercialization of biotech crops (1996 to 2016) has confirmed that biotech crops have delivered substantial agronomic, environmental,…

Agricultural Universities, Research Institutes, Krishi Vigyan Kendras have been generating ample technologies to improve the productivity and profitability of the farmers. How many of these technologies are reaching the farmers?…

SOIL-MORPHOLOGY IN THE STUDY OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN A SEMI-ARID REGION OF NORTHWESTERN IRAN Abstract harged on “global warming”, and held responsible for the shortage of water. In a study…