This review deals with improving the performance of dryland crops in dry, mainly semiarid,
environments. Although such crops are often limited by water, the development of the notion …

The problems and challenges of rapidly increasing world population, global climate change,
shortages of water suitable for irrigation and degradation of agricultural land are increasing …

Australian farming systems have an enduring history of crop–livestock integration which
emerged in the face of high climate variability, infertile soils and variable landscapes. Ley …

Water stored deep in the soil profile is generally considered valuable to crop yield because it
becomes available during grain filling, but the value of subsoil water for grain yield has not …

The amount of reactive N in soils on the Australian continent appears to be increasing,
mainly because of biological N-fixation by permanent pastures in the dryland farming zone …

Adoption of conservation agriculture (CA) principles in Australia increased rapidly during the
1990s and it now boasts the highest adoption rates worldwide. These principles of (1) …

Harvest index (HI) is the ratio of grain to total shoot dry matter and is as a measure of
reproductive efficiency. HI is determined by interactions between genotypes (G) …

Production systems that feature temporal and spatial integration of crop and livestock
enterprises, also known as integrated crop-livestock systems (ICLS), have the potential to …

Water is the most basic essential for plant growth; an inadequate supply causes severe
problems, as plants rely on the water transmitted by soil to meet their physiological and …

World population growth, changing diets and limited opportunities to expand agricultural
lands will drive agricultural intensification in the decades ahead. Concerns about the …