DNA markers have enormous potential to improve the efficiency and precision of conventional plant breeding via marker-assisted selection (MAS). The large number of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) mapping studies for diverse crops species have provided an abundance of DNA marker-trait associations. In this review, we present an overview of the advantages of MAS and its most widely used applicatio...

We present a software system for automated projection of situational knowledge for disease outbreak in agriculture. The system supports farmers and agricultural advisers in obtaining and maintaining awareness of present and future disease outbreaks in crops grown at agricultural parcels. It models objects such as plant pathogens and agricultural parcel crops, and their relations, as entities in...

Light is an important resource that crops and weeds compete for and so increased light interception by the crop can be used as a method of weed suppression in cereal crops. This research investigated the impact of altered availability of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) (from crop row orientation or seeding rate) on the growth and fecundity of Lolium rigidum. Wheat and barley crops wer...

Selenium (Se) is an important micronutrient which essential for most living organisms and occurs in both organic inorganic forms the water system, soils, biomass, atmosphere. In addition to being humans animals, Se beneficial plants mostly involved antioxidant activity/response, as well a growth promoter. deficiency diet global problem, levels soils generally reflect its presence food and, thus...

Вторичное лигноцеллюлозное сырье является самым крупномасштабным возобновляемым ресурсом на планете. Пожнивные остатки, в частности солома злаковых культур, повсеместно сжигаются, создавая угрозу экологии. Одним из способов использования вторичного лигноцеллюлозного сырья культивирование высших грибов. Однако энергоемкость термической предобработки субстрата для выращивания грибов ограничивает ...

Reducing and off-setting anthropogenic emissions of CO(2) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) are important strategies of mitigating the greenhouse effect. Thus, the need for developing carbon (C) neutral and renewable sources of energy is more than ever before. Use of crop residue as a possible source of feedstock for bioenergy production must be critically and objectively assessed because of it...