Perennial Crops
Multivariate spatial statistical analysis of longitudinal data in perennial crops
... According to Fisher (1925) and Steel and Torrie (1980), randomisation of treatment plots across replications can provide neutralisation of the effects of spatial correlation, leading to a valid analysis of variance. ...
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Estimation of actual evapotranspiration of Mediterranean perennial crops by means of remote sensing based surface energy balance models
... Bastiaanssen, W. G. M., Allen, R. G., Droogers, P., D’Urso, G., and Steduto, P.: Twenty-five years modeling irrigated and drained soils: State of the art, Agric. Water Manage., 92, 111–125, 2007. Becker, F. and Li, Z. ...
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Genomic selection in commercial perennial crops: Applicability and improvement in oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq )
... tion is possible without much reduction in accuracy. While it is recognized that the subsets of effective markers may be different according to the targeted traits, with a crop such as oil palm with large progeny numbers ...
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Genomic selection in commercial perennial crops: applicability and improvement in oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq )
... tion is possible without much reduction in accuracy. While it is recognized that the subsets of effective markers may be different according to the targeted traits, with a crop such as oil palm with large progeny numbers ...
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Measuring the Impact of Cash Crops on Household Expenditure and Poverty in Rural Viet Nam
... cash crops on household consumption expenditure and poverty in rural Vietnam using data from Viet Nam Household Living Standard Surveys in 2002 and ...cash crops have positive and statistically significant ...
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Thermophysical and chemical properties of perennial energy crops depending on harvest period
... energy crops yielding semi-wood or straw biomass began in ...straw crops, Miscanthus x giganteus seems to be most resistant to ...other perennial species, are vulnerable to ground frosts in the ...
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Lessons from first generation biofuels and implications for the sustainability appraisal of second generation biofuels
... Depending on where they are grown, the land management prac- tices, modes of transportation and processing techniques used, balan- cing the life cycle GHG emissions remains a challenge for 2G biofuels. In the case of ...
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Control of Conyza spp with glyphosate – a review of the situation in Europe
... in perennial crops, includ- ing three species of the genus Conyza documented by the International Survey of Herbicide Resistant ...in perennial crops including mixtures of glyphosate with ...
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Breeding progress and preparedness for mass-scale deployment of perennial lignocellulosic biomass crops switchgrass, miscanthus, willow, and poplar
... hybrid crops, such as maize, and some high-value horticultural crops, royalties arising from plant breeders rights or other returns to breeders fail to adequately compensate for the full cost for ...
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The regional model for Mediterranean agriculture
... AgriPoliS is a multi-agent mixed integer linear programming (MIP) model, spatially explicit, developed in C++ language and suitable for long-term sim- ulations of agricultural policies. Beyond the mixed integer ...
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Effects of Land Use on the Physico-Chemical Properties of Andisols in Mt. Sinabung, North Sumatera, Indonesia
... Studies of Andisols in secondary forest, mixed farm, cinnamon and coffee farms at slope 3–8 %, 8–15 %, 15–25 % and > 25 % indicate that organic matter content, agregate stability and permeability of soils in forest ...
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Environmental Change in Agricultural Land in Southwest Côte d’Ivoire: Driving Forces and Impacts
... Indeed, Brou [8] has shown that, in a study of the variability of growing seasons in the period 1970-1996, the second growing season debuted 20 days later. This situation can have redhibitory effects on the crop. In the ...
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Potential of Dryland Farming in Kenya and Environmental Implications
... Specifically in ASAL areas of Kenya, water harvesting has emerged as an appropriate technology that contributes positively towards improvement of annual and perennial crops' yields (Kiom[r] ...
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Occurrence of plant parasitic nematodes in commercial pineapple fields and effect of biocontrol agents on meloidogyne species in Kenya
... In commercial production of pineapple, nematicides have been widely used to manage Meloidogyne spp. However, nematicides pose serious threat to the ecosystem (Sharma and Pandey, 2009), leading to most countries banning ...
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Where did the marginal land go?: farmers perspectives on marginal land and its implications for adoption of dedicated energy crops
... marginal land for growing perennial crops utilised in energy systems is not a particularly novel one... In the 1980s, McElroy and Dawson 1986 discussed the potential to use marginal land[r] ...
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Similarity of climate control on base flow and perennial stream density in the Budyko framework
... into perennial (46 006), in- termittent (46 003), ephemeral streams (46 007), and ...Some perennial streams with human interferences are classi- fied as artificial path (55 800), connecter (33 400), or ...
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Comparative responses to nasal allergen challenge in allergic rhinitic subjects with or without asthma
... To be sure that the results were not influenced by outdoor allergens, subjects sensitized to seasonal aller- gens were tested out of the pollen season. We are aware that some indoor allergens, such as dust mites, cannot ...
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Field biomass as global energy source
... cultivated crops listed in FAO statistics (FAO 2009) except temporary forage grasses were in- cluded in the total energy values for each of the 15 ...oil crops, sugar crops and root crops, ...
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PERENNIALISM IN ZEA
... Triploids: When highly perennial, 50 percent-maize segregates of the F, gen- eration were crossed with 2n maize, the resulting triploid plants are strongly perennial, a[r] ...
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The effect of perennial forage crop on grain yields in submontane regions
... under crops, crop yields, fertilization) in 15 agricultural farms in potato-produc- tion and mountain regions of the Czech Republic was analyzed to evaluate the relations between NPK fertilization level, ...
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