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Category : Corn
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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1992 Corn Performance Tests
Author: New Mexico Corn and Sorghum Performance Test
Author: 1991-92 Small Grains Performance Tests
Author: Corn and Grain Sorghum Comparison
Author: Yared AssefaPublisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0128003952
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Corn and grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor L) are among the top cereal crops world wide, and both are key for global food security. Similarities between the two crops, particularly their adaptation for warm-season grain production, pose an opportunity for comparisons to inform appropriate cropping decisions. This book provides a comprehensive review of the similarities and differences between corn and grain sorghum. It compares corn and sorghum crops in areas such as morphology, physiology, phenology, yield, resource use and efficiency, and impact of both crops in different cropping systems. Producers, researchers and extension agents in search of reliable scientific information will find this in-depth comparison of crops with potential fit in dryland and irrigations cropping systems particularly valuable. - Presents a wide range of points of comparison - Offers important insights for crop decision making
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1736
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1384
Book Description
Advances in Agronomy
Author: Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080464475
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Volume 90 of Advances in Agronomy contains seven timely reviews and over 50 descriptive figures. - Maintains the highest impact factor among serial publications in Agriculture - Presents timely reviews on important agronomy issues - Enjoys a long-standing reputation for excellence in the field
Adaptation in Plant Breeding
Author: P.M.A TigerstedtPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401588066
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Plant adaptation is a fundamental process in plant breeding. It was the first criterion in the initial domestication of plants thousands of years ago. Adaptedness is generally a quantitative complex feature of the plant, involving many traits, many of which are quantitative. Adaptation to stresses like cold, drought or diseases are among the most central problems in a world grappling with global food security. Modern plant breeding, based on mendelian genetics, has made plant improvement more effective and more precise and selective. Molecular genetics and genetic engineering has considerably increased this selectivity down to single genes affecting single traits. The time has come when plant breeding efficiency may cause loss of genetic resources and adaptation. In these proceedings an effort is made to merge modern plant breeding efficiency with ecological aspects of plant breeding, reflected in adaptation. It is hoped that this merger results in more sustainable use of genetic resources and physical environments. The book is based on 10 keynotes addressing a wide spectrum of themes related to adaptation. In addition each subject is further elaborated in up to three case studies on particular plant species or groups of plants. The keynotes do in fact overlap to some degree and there are articles in this volume that seemingly contradict each other, a common aspect in advanced fields of research. The keen reader may conclude that, in a world where climates and environments are under continuous change and where human society is more and more polarized into a developed and a developing part, adaptation of our cultivated plants has different constraints on yields depending on ecology, and indeed economy.
Predicting N Fertilizer Needs for Corn in Humid Regions
Author: Growth and Mineral Nutrition of Field Crops
Author: Nand Kumar FageriaPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439816964
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
By the year 2050, the world's population is expected to reach nine billion. To feed and sustain this projected population, world food production must increase by at least 50 percent on much of the same land that we farm today. To meet this staggering challenge, scientists must develop the technology required to achieve an "evergreen" revolution-one