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... Kochia [Bassia scoparia (L.) A.J. Scott] is a problematic summer-annual tumbleweed that infests cropped and noncropped areas in the Great Plains of North America. Efficient seed dispersal, prolific seed production, and abiotic stress tolerance facilitate invasiveness of kochia, while both resource-limiting and non-resource-limiting interference aid in rapid colonization of disturbed areas. Resista ...
... The ionome is defined as the mineral element composition of an organism or tissue and is genetically and environmentally influenced. Although nutrient deficiency changes the plant ionome, the differences among different species have not been elucidated fully. In the present study, we examined the ionomic responses to nutrient deficiency in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), maize (Zea mays L.), sunflow ...
... The aim of this study was to determine the effect of the hydrolates obtained as the by-products of the Thymus vulgaris essential oil steam distillation process. The bioassays, which were undertaken in order to determine the effect on germination and initial growth of seedlings of some cultivated and weed species, were performed under controlled conditions with different concentrations of the hydro ...
Muhammad Shahzad; Mubshar Hussain; Khawar Jabran; Muhammad Farooq; Shahid Farooq; Kristína Gašparovič; Maria Barboricova; Bandar S. Aljuaid; Ahmed M. El-Shehawi; Ali Tan Kee Zuan
... Weed infestations significantly reduce the growth and yield of field crops. Herbicides are mostly used for weed management due to their quick results. However, resistant biotypes to available herbicides are rapidly increasing around the word. This situation calls for the development of alternative weed management strategies. Crop rotation and allelopathic water extracts are regarded as the most im ...
... Invasive plant species can inhibit the growth of native plants by competing for resources as well as by secreting allelochemicals. Indigobush (Amorpha fruticosa L.), a deciduous shrub adaptable to a wide range of environmental conditions, was introduced into Europe as a decorative and valuable honey plant. In this study, we assayed the phytotoxic effect of aqueous leaf extracts (1, 3 and 5%) obtai ...
... Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) has been used as an alternative summer crop in the traditional wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)-fallow rotation in the Great Plains of the USA. However, few studies have been conducted to quantify sunflower productivity and water productivity (WP) under semi-arid conditions and projected climate change. Experiments were conducted in 2008, 2010, and 2011 on sunflowers u ...
Helianthus annuus; Triticum aestivum; bioavailability; environment; ionome; irrigated farming; irrigation; leaf area; nutrient uptake; oils; plant health; risk assessment; salinity; salt tolerance; sunflower seed; wastewater; water shortages; water treatment; wheat
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... Produced water (PW), a wastewater resulting from hydraulic fracturing and oil and gas production, has been utilized in arid regions for irrigation purposes and potentially presents a new water source for crop irrigation in areas of increasing water scarcity. However, there is a potential for both synthetic and geogenic contaminants in these waters to accumulate in irrigated food crops. This study ...
... Purpose. To determine the effectiveness of using contrasting sowing dates after different predecessors to assess the genotypes of bread winter wheat in terms of yield and stability. Methods. Field, laboratory, mathematical statistics. Results. A different, but reliable level of influence on the yield of bread winter wheat genotypes of such factors as conditions of the year of cultivation (66.2%), ...
... Soil pollution with heavy metals and iron (Fe) malnutrition is big concern of industrial areas in arid and semi-arid regions. We studied the potential of Fe-enriched green manures application and Piriformospora indica (P.indica) to increase grain Fe concentration of two bread wheat genotypes differing in Fe efficiency (Triticum aestivum L. cvs. Falat, and Durum) in a Pb-polluted soil. To prepare F ...
Cenchrus americanus; Helianthus annuus; Triticum aestivum; Zea mays; corn; crop yield; millets; water use efficiency; wheat; Argentina; Australia; China; Western Africa
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... This article is part of a series of brief commentaries to highlight papers that have resulted in important and distinctly new perspectives in crop science. Here, we outline a series of two papers by French and Schultz (F&S) on water use efficiency of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) published in 1984. The insight of F&S was not to draw a regression line across their yield‐evapotranspiration data. Inst ...
... Foliar absorption of zinc (Zn) is limited by several barriers, the first of which is the leaf cuticle. In this study, we investigated the absorption of Zn from Zn oxide nanoparticles (ZnO‐NPs) in wheat (Triticum aestivum cv Gladius) and sunflower (Helianthus annuus cv Hyoleic 41) to determine the importance of NP surface coating for Zn absorption. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy sho ...
... The objective of this study was to assess the effect of biochar soil amendment (BSA) on chemical and microbial properties in different agricultural soils in Vojvodina Province. Short-term pot experiment consisted of five biochar application doses (0, 0.5, 1, 2, and 3%) and five contrasting soil types (Mollic Gleysol, Eutric Cambisol, Calcaric Fluvisol, Gleyic Chernozem, and Haplic Chernozem), pla ...
... The development of crop rotations to support sustainable agriculture depends on understanding how crop rotations affect above‐ and belowground crop characteristics. Our objectives were to investigate crop rotation effects on shoot dry weight and root characteristics of cereal and grain legume crops at anthesis, as well as on grain yield. Rotations were corn (Zea mays L.)–soybean [Glycine max (L.) ...
... Increasing crop diversity has been highly recommended because of its environmental and economic benefits. However, the impacts of crop diversity on soil properties are not well documented. Thus, the present study was conducted to assess the impacts of crop diversity on selected soil quality indicators. The cropping systems investigated here included wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) grown continuously ...
... A three-year study was conducted to test the fertilization properties of different types of compost as the total or partial mineral nitrogen fertilization substitute in an herbaceous crop succession (Zea mays L., Triticum aestivum L. and Helianthus annus L.). Four types of compost (i. green cuttings and depuration sludge, ii. green cuttings, organic fraction of municipal wastes and other organic m ...
... Lake Urmia in Iran has faced extreme water loss in recent years due to overuse and mismanagement of water resources, particularly in agriculture. In this study, three strategies including irrigation depth reduction, changing planting dates and crop rotation in crop patterns of Urmia city were assessed for improvement of water productivity to mitigate the crisis of Lake Urmia. For this purpose, the ...
... Photosynthetic processes in the chloroplast depend on the abundance of magnesium (Mg) in relatively high amounts; hence chloroplasts might react more sensitive to Mg-deficiency than other physiological processes within other organelles. Most authors suggest a critical Mg concentration to be 1.5 mg g−1 DM for biomass and yield formation. However, it is not yet elucidated whether this value also app ...
... CORE IDEAS: Precipitation allocation increased from 45 to 85% when using diversified crop rotations. Shifting timing of fallow periods increased growing season precipitation allocation. Diversified crop rotations exhibited lower total water losses during fallow periods than continuous wheat rotations. Conventional till continuous winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a common cropping system in t ...
... The current study uses 2‐yr trial data set to investigate the impacts of ridge‐furrow planting system and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) straw mulching on sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) yield and some soil parameters. Field experiments were conducted in 2014 and 2015 in two different locations (Tehran and Mashhad Provinces, Iran). The experiments were laid out in a randomized complete block design ...
... Dryland crop rotation systems are sustainable only if there is sufficient water available for profitable crop production. The objective of our study was to identify potential crop rotation systems for the central Great Plains and similar semiarid areas that increase soil water, fallow water accumulation, fallow efficiency, and water productivity of major crops. The study was conducted from 2000 th ...