Wheat is a major food crop, with around 765 million tonnes produced globally. The largest
wheat producers include the European Union, China, India, Russia, United States, Canada …

As acreage of row crops managed with conservation tillage increases, more growers are
encountering slugs, elevating their importance as crop pests. Slugs can eat virtually all crops …

Heat units, expressed in growing degree-days (GDD), are frequently used to describe the
timing of biological processes. The basic equation used is GDD=[(T MAX+ T MIN) 2]− T …

Learn how the climate can affect crop production! Agrometeorology: Principles and
Applications of Climate Studies in Agriculture is a much-needed reference resource on the …

The hypothesis that carbohydrate partitioning is driven by competition among individual
plant organs, based on each organ's growth potential, was used to develop a simulation …

Dormancy is commonly separated into a rest period, when the buds remain dormant due to
growth-arresting physiological conditions, and a quiescent period, when the buds remain …

This paper examines the impacts, feedbacks, and mitigation of the urban heat island in
Phoenix, Arizona (USA). At Sky Harbor Airport, urbanization has increased the nighttime …

Hermetia illucens, is used as a reducing agent of palm kernel meal (PKM), as well as one of
alternative protein sources for aquaculture purposes. Information about biology of H. illucens …

Procedures for estimating degree-day accumulations are frequently employed instead of the
more accurate method of calculating degree-days from hourly temperature data because on …

We examined trends in accumulated winter chill across the fruit growing region of central
California and its internal coastal valleys. We tested the hypothesis that global warming is in …