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Agricultural Sciences is an international journal dedicated to the advancements in agriculture throughout the world. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists, students, academics and engineers all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different are…
Xiping Yuan, Dengqiang Wang, Shaoping Liu, Hong Li, Wang Ke, Xinbin Duan, Daqing Chen
The Nu River Project comprised of 13-dam cascade is one of the biggest hydropower development projects yet conceived in China. However, hydropower development will inevitably result in the local ecological environment and biological material impact, particula…
Yan Li, Bingxue Dong, Chunqing Zhang
Crops are often subjected to iron(Fe)-deficiency due to the limited solubility of this essential element in most neutral or basic soils. Developing cultivars with high efficiency in Fe utilization via breeding programs can provide solutions to this problem as…
Mohammed Massri, Louay Labban
Background: Watermelon is a very important crop because it has many nutritional and economical values. This crop is known to human for ages and has been cultivated for centuries in many Middle Eastern countries including Syria. Several types of fertilizers ar…
Chao Zu, Zhigang Li, Jianfeng Yang, Huan Yu, Yan Sun, Hongliang Tang, Russell Yost, Huasong Wu
Low pH is a major limiting factor for the production of black pepper ( Piper nigrum L.) in Hainan province. Black pepper gardens often exhibit a decrease in soil pH (to 5.5 - 5.0) on orchards with a multi-year production history. An exploratory hydroponic exp…
Davie M. Kadyampakeni, Samson Kazombo-Phiri, Bancy Mati, Isaac R. Fandika
A study was conducted in Malawi to compare the performance of improved agricultural water ma- nagement interventions with traditional water management practices to assess the impact of the interventions on crop yield and water use productivity. The study used…
Juan A. Salazar, Mousa Rasouli, Reza Fatahi Moghaddam, Zabihollah Zamani, Ali Imani, Pedro Martínez-Gómez
Evaluation of agronomic traits in Prunus breeding programs is a tedious process because of the long juvenile period of trees, the influence of juvenility and the existence of climatic factors affecting the expression of the trait. For these reasons, marker-as…
Madegowda Madhu, Jerry L. Hatfield
Soybean ( Glycine max ( L .) Merrill) is one of the most important oil and protein sources in the world. Interactive effect of elevated carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and soil water availability potentially impact future food security of the world under climate chang…
Nader Soltani, Christy Shropshire, Peter H. Sikkema
Glyphosate and glufosinate resistant (RR/LL) volunteer corn has become a problem when hybrid RR/LL corn follows hybrid RR/LL corn in the rotation. A total of six field trials were conducted over a three-year period (2008 to 2010) in southwestern Ontario to 1)…
Yuxin Ma, Decheng Li, Ganlin Zhang, Xusheng Li, Yuguo Zhao, Jinling Yang, Feng Liu, Mingsong Zhao, Shanquan Li, Changlong Wei, Fan Yang, Laiming Huang
Tillage layer thickness (TLT) of farmland could be regarded as one of physical indexes in assessing soil productivity and quality. In recent years, tillage layer shallowing was found in China in various regions, mainly due to the adoption of non-tillage or ro…
Oyeyemi Adigun Dada, Adeniyi Olumuyiwa Togun, James Alabi Adediran, Francis E. Nwilene
Cultivating traditional upland rice cultivars on nutrient depleted soil causes poor and low yield. Little attention is paid to performance of inter-specific NERICA cultivars grown on nutrient deficient soil augmented with different types of compost. Therefore…
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