Crop production in chemically killed turf

Crop Production in India

Effects of a killed-cover crop mulching system on sweetpotato production, soil pests, and insect predators in South Carolina.

Sweetpotatoes, Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. (Convolvulaceae), are typically grown on bare soil where weeds and erosion can be serious problems. Conservation tillage systems using cover crop residues as mulch can help reduce these problems, but little is known about how conservation tillage affects yield and quality of sweetpotato or how these systems impact populations of beneficial and pest insec...

Forage Crop Production

Crop Models as Decision Support Systems in Crop Production

The current challenges crop production faces in the context of required yield increases while reducing fertilizer, water and pesticide inputs have created an increasing demand for agronomic knowledge and enhanced decision support guidelines, which are difficult to obtain on spatial scales appropriate for use in a multitude of global cropping systems. Nowadays crop models are increasingly being ...

Is genetic engineering ever going to take off in forage, turf and bioenergy crop breeding?

BACKGROUND Genetic engineering offers the opportunity to generate unique genetic variation that is either absent in the sexually compatible gene pool or has very low heritability. The generation of transgenic plants, coupled with breeding, has led to the production of widely used transgenic cultivars in several major cash crops, such as maize, soybean, cotton and canola. The process for regulat...