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Agriculture, Volume 9, Issue 8

August 2019 - 23 articles

Cover Story: This review describes the multiple utilization of perennial grasses as resilient crops for a multifunctional agriculture. Beyond its role of producing food, feed and fiber, the concept of multifunctional agriculture includes many other functions, such as ecosystem services, renewable energy production and a contribution to the socio-economic viability of rural areas. Traditionally used for feed, some perennial grasses—known as perennial energy grasses (e.g., miscanthus—Miscanthus × giganteus Greef et Deuter, giant reed—Arundo donax L., switchgrass—Panicun virgatum L., reed canary grass—Phalaris arundinacea L.)—have been recommended as a biomass source for both energy and non-energy applications, and ecosystem services. View this paper
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Articles (23)

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,199 Views
9 Pages

Assessing Topsoil Movement in Rotary Harrowing Process by RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) Technique

  • Ahmed Kayad,
  • Riccardo Rainato,
  • Lorenzo Picco,
  • Luigi Sartori and
  • Francesco Marinello

Harrowing is a process that reduces the size of soil clods and prepares the field for seeding. Rotary harrows are a common piece of equipment in North Italy that consists of teeth rotating around a vertical axis with a processing depth of 5–15...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,523 Views
13 Pages

Weed Management Programs in Grain Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor)

  • Taghi Bararpour,
  • Ralph R. Hale,
  • Gurpreet Kaur,
  • Bhupinder Singh,
  • Te-Ming P. Tseng,
  • Tessie H. Wilkerson and
  • Cammy D. Willett

A field study was conducted in Arkansas over three years to evaluate various herbicide treatments, including sequential and tank-mix applications for weed control in grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor). The herbicide treatments used were quinclorac, atra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,742 Views
14 Pages

A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of biochar and dairy manure (DM) on physicochemical properties of podzolic soils, as well as to establish the relationships between selected physicochemical properties and soil electrical condu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
67 Citations
11,616 Views
11 Pages

Emerging Challenges for Weed Management in Herbicide-Resistant Crops

  • Karla L. Gage,
  • Ronald F. Krausz and
  • S. Alan Walters

Since weed management is such a critical component of agronomic crop production systems, herbicides are widely used to provide weed control to ensure that yields are maximized. In the last few years, herbicide-resistant (HR) crops, particularly those...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,133 Views
20 Pages

Development and Field Evaluation of a Spray Drift Risk Assessment Tool for Vineyard Spraying Application

  • Georgios Bourodimos,
  • Michael Koutsiaras,
  • Vasilios Psiroukis,
  • Athanasios Balafoutis and
  • Spyros Fountas

Spray drift is one of the most important causes of pollution from plant protection products and it puts the health of the environment, animals, and humans at risk. There is; thus, an urgent need to develop measures for its reduction. Among the factor...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,509 Views
17 Pages

Weeds have been historically, and are still today, the primary and most economically important pest in agriculture. Several selection pressures associated with weed management, such as an overreliance on herbicides, have promoted the rapid evolution...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,164 Views
6 Pages

Energetic Aspects of Turfgrass Mowing: Comparison of Different Rotary Mowing Systems

  • Michel Pirchio,
  • Marco Fontanelli,
  • Fabio Labanca,
  • Mino Sportelli,
  • Christian Frasconi,
  • Luisa Martelloni,
  • Michele Raffaelli,
  • Andrea Peruzzi,
  • Monica Gaetani and
  • Simone Magni
  • + 3 authors

Turfgrass mowing is one of the most important operations concerning turfgrass maintenance. Over time, different mowing machines have been developed, such as reel mowers, rotary mowers, and flail mowers. Rotary mowers have become the most widespread m...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,941 Views
12 Pages

A trial was conducted during the 2005–2006 season in order to determine the effects of different leaf-to-fruit ratios on yield components and fruit composition in four Vitis vinifera L. cultivars. The treatments consisted of selecting shoots of four...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,357 Views
14 Pages

The main objective of this study was to explore the viability of drip irrigation for organic spinach production and the management of spinach downy mildew disease in California. The experiment was conducted over two crop seasons at the University of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,976 Views
13 Pages

Intense Breeding within Lentil Landraces for High-Yielding Pure Lines Sustained the Seed Quality Characteristics

  • Elissavet Ninou,
  • Fokion Papathanasiou,
  • Dimitrios N. Vlachostergios,
  • Ioannis Mylonas,
  • Anastasia Kargiotidou,
  • Chrysanthi Pankou,
  • Ioannis Papadopoulos,
  • Evangelia Sinapidou and
  • Ioannis Tokatlidis

Landraces are a valuable source of genetic variability for breeders to develop high-yielding lentil varieties. Apart from productivity, simultaneous breeding for lentil seed nutritional quality is of paramount importance for wider lentil consumption....

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