Agriculture is a source for three primary greenhouse gases (GHGs): CO2, CH4, and N2O. It can also be a sink for CO2 through C sequestration into biomass products and soil organic matter. We summarized the literature on GHG emissions and C sequestration, providing a perspective on how agriculture can reduce its GHG burden and how it can help to mitigate GHG emissions through conservation measure...

Agriculture is a source for three primary greenhouse gases (GHGs): CO(2), CH(4), and N(2)O. It can also be a sink for CO(2) through C sequestration into biomass products and soil organic matter. We summarized the literature on GHG emissions and C sequestration, providing a perspective on how agriculture can reduce its GHG burden and how it can help to mitigate GHG emissions through conservation...

Organic agriculture (OA) is practiced on 1% of the global agricultural land area and its importance continues to grow. Specifically, OA is perceived by many as having less Advances inAgronomy, ISSN 0065-2113 © 2016 Elsevier Inc. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.agron.2016.05.003 All rights reserved. 1 ARTICLE IN PRESS

Department of Horticulture, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164–6414 (B.W.P., L.D.); College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310036, People’s Republic of China (L.D., H.W.); and Food Quality Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, ...

Animal agriculture in the United States for the most part has industrialized, with negative consequences for air and water quality and antibiotic use. We consider health and environmental impacts of current US swine production and give an overview of current federal, state, and local strategies being used to address them.

The effects of osmotic and matric water potential on mycelial growth, production and germination of conidia, and production and maturation of pseudothecia of Pyrenophora triticirepentis (PTR), the cause of tan spot of wheat, were examined on clarified V8 juice agar amended with KCl or polyethylene glycol 8000 (PEG8000). Patterns of the growth responses of three isolates to decreasing osmotic an...

A total of 44 mature chickens (about 50 weeks old) males and females inbred naked necked and Frizzle Feathered chickens were crossed to generate a total of 180 day-old(97 Na x Na and 83 F x F chicks) realized from main and reciprocal crossbreeding were used in the study. Mean dayold weights of the Inbreds( Main crossbreds) were 22.17g, 23.87g, 25.50g for (Na x Na), (F x F) and (Na x F) respecti...