Sustainable strategies for managing weeds are critical to meeting agriculture's potential to
feed the world's population while conserving the ecosystems and biodiversity on which we …

Grain crops are an important part of the human diet, accounting for a third of the consumed
calories. Throughout human history, annual grain crops with high yields have been obtained …

Perennial grain crops could make a valuable addition to sustainable agriculture, potentially
even as an alternative to their annual counterparts. The ability of perennials to grow year …

The introduction of novel perennial grains into annual row crop rotations is proposed to
increase soil ecosystem services and enhance plant-soil-microbial linkages because …

Intercropping is an agricultural technique where many crops are grown together on the
same field, and it is becoming more widely acknowledged for its ability to improve …

Kernza intermediate wheatgrass is the first perennial grain crop in the world and has been
developed with conventional breeding to increase seed yield of forage intermediate …

Intermediate wheatgrass [IWG, Thinopyrum intermedium (Host) Barkworth & DR Dewey,
trade name Kernza] is a widely adapted, cool‐season forage grass, actively bred for …

The development of a perennial grain offers opportunities to diversify annual crop rotations,
with potential benefits in terms of soil protection. Perennials could also reduce weed …

The sustainability of an agricultural field is largely influenced by crop growth habit and
management practices such as tillage. Both strongly interact to shape ecosystem properties …

Perennial grain crops have been proposed as environmentally sustainable alternatives to
annual grain crop systems that currently dominate the world's major breadbaskets …