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Agriculture, Volume 8, Issue 10

October 2018 - 20 articles

Cover Story: Biochar can significantly improve soil quality and crop growth. However not all biochars are created equal. This study investigated the effects of production temperature of bamboo biochar on plant growth and fruit quality of tomato. Tomato ‘Micro-Tom’ plants are particularly sensitive to growth conditions. Does biochar application improve crop quality? In this study, yes. The improved plant growth and fruit quality were related to the higher concentrations of NO3, P, Ca, and Mg in the growing media. View this paper.
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Articles (20)

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,359 Views
16 Pages

Salinity is an abiotic stress that curtails rice production in many parts of the world. Although Koshihikari and Nikomaru are high-yielding japonica rice cultivars, their salinity-tolerance levels are not well known. This experiment was conducted in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,877 Views
19 Pages

Environmental Impacts of the Beef Production Chain in the Northeast of Portugal Using Life Cycle Assessment

  • Pedro Henrique Presumido,
  • Fernando Sousa,
  • Artur Gonçalves,
  • Tatiane Cristina Dal Bosco and
  • Manuel Feliciano

The beef supply chain has multiple negative impacts on the environment. A method widely used to measure impacts from both the use of resources and the emissions generated by this sector is the life cycle assessment (LCA) (ISO 14040). This study aimed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
15,366 Views
16 Pages

Scarcity of good-quality irrigation water is a major impediment to meet food demand for a growing world population. Recycled waters may be available locally more affordably, but their higher salinity is a concern. Salinity effects on spinach mineral...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,253 Views
12 Pages

Sustainable production besides economic, energetic, and environmental aspects should consider social and cultural features of the territory in which it relies. This occurs above all for agriculture that is intrinsically related to the territory. Toda...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,930 Views
20 Pages

The inefficient water use, and variable and low productivity in Kenyan public irrigation schemes is a major concern. It is, therefore, necessary to periodically monitor and evaluate the performance of public irrigation schemes. This prompted evaluati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,080 Views
17 Pages

Urban settlements have globally expanded into rural land. Being influenced by complex socio-environmental dynamics and sometimes acting as a reserve of economic value, fallow land has characterized rural areas in a distinctive way over the last decad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,417 Views
16 Pages

The basic leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factor family regulates plant developmental processes and response to stresses. The common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), an important crop legume, possesses a whole set of 78 bZIP (PvbZIP) genes, the majorit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
6,529 Views
12 Pages

Sorption to Biochar Impacts β-Glucosidase and Phosphatase Enzyme Activities

  • Erika J. Foster,
  • Emily J. Fogle and
  • M. Francesca Cotrufo

Extracellular enzymes catalyze biogeochemical reactions in soil, cycling carbon and nutrients in agricultural systems. Enzymes respond quickly to soil management, including organic amendment inputs, such as biochar, a charcoal-like solid byproduct of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,169 Views
9 Pages

Digital image analysis and multivariate data analysis were used in this study to identify a set of leaf and fruit morphometric traits to discriminate white mulberry (Morus alba L.) cultivars. The trial was conducted using three- to five-year-old pott...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,683 Views
10 Pages

Crop rotation in winter cereals in semiarid Mediterranean climates is highly desirable to prevent weed infestations, but the climatic conditions make it difficult to implement alternative crops to winter cereals. Camelina (Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz...

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