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Agronomy, Volume 9, Issue 7

July 2019 - 68 articles

Cover Story: Secondary salinization induced by brackish water irrigation has forced agricultural development to increasingly rely on soil management. A two-year field experiment was conducted to explore the effects of different straw incorporation rates (SIRs) within 0 to 20 cm topsoil on the soil water–salt balance, maize yield production, and water use efficiency (WUE) under brackish water irrigation in a naturally non-saline area. Results demonstrated that straw incorporation markedly increased the soil water content during two growing seasons, and SIR was directly correlated to the deep percolation, but inversely correlated to the soil water depletion, under both the SL and SH condition. Results in this study would be helpful in the adoption of straw incorporation and brackish water irrigation in ways that facilitate soil water availability and reduce the risk of soil salinization. View this paper.
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Articles (68)

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
21,192 Views
15 Pages

Caffeine: The Allelochemical Responsible for the Plant Growth Inhibitory Activity of Vietnamese Tea (Camellia sinensis L. Kuntze)

  • Van Thi Thanh PHAM,
  • Tamer ISMAIL,
  • Maryia MISHYNA,
  • Kwame Sarpong APPIAH,
  • Yosei OIKAWA and
  • Yoshiharu FUJII

The present study aimed to examine the phytotoxic potential of seven Vietnamese tea samples based on the specific and total activity of caffeine and tea extracts on test plants. The sandwich method results indicated that the inhibitory effect of tea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,937 Views
22 Pages

The Impact of Possible Decadal-Scale Cold Waves on Viticulture over Europe in a Context of Global Warming

  • Giovanni Sgubin,
  • Didier Swingedouw,
  • Iñaki García de Cortázar-Atauri,
  • Nathalie Ollat and
  • Cornelis van Leeuwen

A comprehensive analysis of all the possible impacts of future climate change is crucial for strategic plans of adaptation for viticulture. Assessments of future climate are generally based on the ensemble mean of state-of-the-art climate model proje...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
10,857 Views
14 Pages

Morphological Description and Classification of Wheat Kernels Based on Geometric Models

  • José Javier Martín-Gómez,
  • Agnieszka Rewicz,
  • Klaudia Goriewa-Duba,
  • Marian Wiwart,
  • Ángel Tocino and
  • Emilio Cervantes

Modern automated and semi-automated methods of shape analysis depart from the coordinates of the points in the outline of a figure and obtain, based on artificial vision algorithms, descriptive parameters (i.e., the length, width, area, and circulari...

  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
7,407 Views
15 Pages

Silicon Improves the Production of High Antioxidant or Structural Phenolic Compounds in Barley Cultivars under Aluminum Stress

  • Isis Vega,
  • Miroslav Nikolic,
  • Sofía Pontigo,
  • Karina Godoy,
  • María de La Luz Mora and
  • Paula Cartes

Aluminum (Al) toxicity is one of the main growth and yield limiting factors for barley grown on acid soils. Silicon (Si) ameliorates Al toxicity as well as it promotes the phenolic compounds production that have antioxidant or structural role. We eva...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,705 Views
14 Pages

Our objectives were to quantify the growth and tissue mineral nutrient concentrations of cilantro (Coriandrum sativum ‘Santo’), dill (Anethum graveolens ‘Fernleaf’), and parsley (Petroselinum crispum ‘Giant of Italy&rsqu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,173 Views
22 Pages

Morphometry of the Wheat Spike by Analyzing 2D Images

  • Mikhail A. Genaev,
  • Evgenii G. Komyshev,
  • Nikolai V. Smirnov,
  • Yuliya V. Kruchinina,
  • Nikolay P. Goncharov and
  • Dmitry A. Afonnikov

Spike shape and morphometric characteristics are among the key characteristics of cultivated cereals associated with their productivity. Identification of the genes controlling these traits requires morphometric data at harvesting and analysis of num...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,938 Views
19 Pages

To study the complex migration and transformation of trace metal(loid)s in a soil–wheat system, 225 pairs of surface soil and wheat samples were collected from the Taihang Mountains front plain, Hebei Province, northern China. The concentration...

  • Review
  • Open Access
71 Citations
12,179 Views
17 Pages

Models for the evapotranspiration of greenhouse crops are needed both for accurate irrigation and for the simulation or management of the greenhouse climate. For this purpose, several evapotranspiration models have been developed and presented, all b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,563 Views
21 Pages

Assessing the Potential of Cereal Production Systems to Adapt to Contrasting Weather Conditions in the Mediterranean Region

  • Marie Therese Abi Saab,
  • Mohamed Houssemeddine Sellami,
  • Pasquale Giorio,
  • Angelo Basile,
  • Antonello Bonfante,
  • Youssef Rouphael,
  • Salim Fahed,
  • Ihab Jomaa,
  • Chafic Stephan and
  • Rabih Kabalan
  • + 3 authors

Variable rainfall, water stress, and spring frost are the main challenges for cereal growers in the Mediterranean region. The potential of wheat and barley to adapt to contrasting weather conditions was investigated through the adoption of no-till, s...

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Agronomy - ISSN 2073-4395