This review reveals that crop residues of common cultivated crops are an important resource
not only as a source of significant quantities of nutrients for crop production but also affecting …

Changes in the sequence of crops grown on agricultural land are well known to enhance the
yield of grain crops such as wheat. A survey of the literature gathered from around the world …

This new edition of a bestseller examines plant nutrition's role as one of the most important
limiting factors that must be overcome to optimize food production. Extensively revised and …

Human efforts to produce ever-greater amounts of food leave their mark on our environment.
Persistent use of conventional farming practices based on extensive tillage, especially when …

Recent advances in our knowledge of parasitic and mutualistic associations have confirmed
the central role of coevolutionary interactions in population and community ecology. Here …

Crown rot of wheat and barley in the Pacific Northwest is caused by a complex of Fusarium
pseudograminearum, F. culmorum, F. avenaceum, Bipolaris sorokiniana, and Microdochium …

Wheat is one of the most cultivated crops worldwide. In 2010, 20% of wheat and durum
wheat were cultivated in Europe, 17% in China and 9% in Russia and in North America …

Direct seeding or no-till leaves the soil undisturbed, except where the seed is planted and
the soil fertilized. It offers several advantages in small-grain cereal production, including …

Background Plant breeding requires numerous generations to be cycled and evaluated
before an improved cultivar is released. This lengthy process is required to introduce and …

Burning crop residue before and/or after harvest is a common farming practice however;
there is no baseline estimate for cropland burned area in the contiguous US (CONUS). We …