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Crops, Volume 2, Issue 2

2022 June - 8 articles

Cover Story: Protected cropping offers a way to bolster food production in the face of climate change and deliver healthy food sustainably with fewer resources. However, to make this way of farming economically viable, we need to consider the status of protected cropping in the context of available technologies and corresponding target horticultural crops. This review outlines existing opportunities and challenges that must be addressed by ongoing research and innovation in this exciting but complex field in Australia. For indoor cropping production to have a substantial positive impact on global food security and nutritional security, the economical production of diverse crops will be essential. View this paper
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Articles (8)

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
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16 Pages
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Agroclimatic Zones and Cropping Systems in the Southwestern Regions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Characterization, Classification and Improvement Potential

  • Alexey Morgounov,
  • Mohamed Abubakr,
  • Abdullah Alhendi,
  • Abdullah Alkhatran,
  • Hussam Alhuwaymil and
  • Kakoli Ghosh
Crops2022, 2(2), 186-201;https://doi.org/10.3390/crops2020014

14 June 2022

The southwestern regions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) are geographically and agriculturally diverse. Over millennia, crop production in these regions has evolved to use renewable water resources sustainably. This study analysed environmental...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
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Current Technologies and Target Crops: A Review on Australian Protected Cropping

  • Sachin G. Chavan,
  • Zhong-Hua Chen,
  • Oula Ghannoum,
  • Christopher I. Cazzonelli and
  • David T. Tissue
Crops2022, 2(2), 172-185;https://doi.org/10.3390/crops2020013

8 June 2022

Protected cropping offers a way to bolster food production in the face of climate change and deliver healthy food sustainably with fewer resources. However, to make this way of farming economically viable, we need to consider the status of protected...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
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18 Pages
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Good Statistical Practices in Agronomy Using Categorical Data Analysis, with Alfalfa Examples Having Poisson and Binomial Underlying Distributions

  • Ronald P. Mowers,
  • Bruna Bucciarelli,
  • Yuanyuan Cao,
  • Deborah A. Samac and
  • Zhanyou Xu
Crops2022, 2(2), 154-171;https://doi.org/10.3390/crops2020012

13 May 2022

Categorical data derived from qualitative classifications or countable quantitative data are common in biological scientific work and crop breeding. Categorical data analyses are important for drawing correct inferences from experiments. However, cat...

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8 Citations
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Response of Senegalese Sorghum Seedlings to Pathotype 5 of Sporisorium reilianum

  • Ezekiel Ahn,
  • Louis K. Prom,
  • Coumba Fall and
  • Clint Magill
Crops2022, 2(2), 142-153;https://doi.org/10.3390/crops2020011

2 May 2022

Sporisorium reilianum causes head smut in sorghum. A total of 36 Senegalese sorghum accessions comprised of sorghum lines that have not been explored with response to pathotype 5 of S. reilianum were evaluated with 3 different treatments. First, seed...

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24 Citations
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Biodiversity of the Genus Trichoderma in the Rhizosphere of Coffee (Coffea arabica) Plants in Ethiopia and Their Potential Use in Biocontrol of Coffee Wilt Disease

  • Afrasa Mulatu,
  • Negussie Megersa,
  • Tariku Abena,
  • Selvaraju Kanagarajan,
  • Qinsong Liu,
  • Tesfaye Alemu Tenkegna and
  • Ramesh R. Vetukuri
Crops2022, 2(2), 120-141;https://doi.org/10.3390/crops2020010

26 April 2022

The present study investigated the distribution status and biodiversity of Trichoderma species surveyed from coffee rhizosphere soil samples from Ethiopia and their potential for biocontrol of coffee wilt disease (CWD) caused by Fusarium xylarioides....

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
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Breaking Seed Dormancy of Jaltomata procumbens (Cav.) J. L. Gentry Seeds with the Use of KNO3

  • Ignacio Darío Flores-Sánchez,
  • Manuel Sandoval-Villa and
  • Ebandro Uscanga-Mortera
Crops2022, 2(2), 99-110;https://doi.org/10.3390/crops2020008

7 April 2022

Jaltomata procumbens (Cav.) J. L. Gentry presents seed dormancy mechanisms in its two populations, erect and decumbent, that make its germination and obtaining of plants difficult. Potassium nitrate (KNO3) is used as a seed germination promoter by so...

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1 Citations
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Microwaved Vermicast Physicochemical Properties and Active Microbial Groups Impact on Photosynthetic Activity, Growth and Yield of Kale

  • Lord Abbey,
  • Zhixu Rao and
  • Suwen Lin
Crops2022, 2(2), 87-98;https://doi.org/10.3390/crops2020007

31 March 2022

Microwave technology has wide applications, including extraction of active compounds in biomass and compost for agricultural use. A study was carried out to determine the effects of microwave power level from 0 (control) to 1000 W on the properties a...

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