The CROPROTECT project and wider opportunities to improve farm productivity through web-based knowledge exchange [0.03%]
CROPROTECT项目以及通过基于网络的知识交流提高农场生产力的更多机会
Toby J A Bruce
Toby J A Bruce
A key global 21st century challenge is to maximize agricultural production while minimizing use of resources such as land, water, and energy to meet rising demand for produce. To meet this challenge, while also adapting to climate change, a...
Genetics-based dynamic systems model of canopy photosynthesis: the key to improve light and resource use efficiencies for crops [0.03%]
基于遗传信息的冠层光合动态系统模型——提高农作物光能及资源利用效率的关键因素
Qingfeng Song,Chengcai Chu,Martin A J Parry et al.
Qingfeng Song et al.
Improving canopy photosynthetic light use efficiency instead of leaf photosynthesis holds great potential to catalyze the next "green revolution". However, leaves in a canopy experience different biochemical limitations due to the heterogen...
Huw D Jones
Huw D Jones
Vertical farming increases lettuce yield per unit area compared to conventional horizontal hydroponics [0.03%]
垂直耕作相比传统水平水培可以提高单位面积生菜产量
Dionysios Touliatos,Ian C Dodd,Martin McAinsh
Dionysios Touliatos
Vertical farming systems (VFS) have been proposed as an engineering solution to increase productivity per unit area of cultivated land by extending crop production into the vertical dimension. To test whether this approach presents a viable...
Iain S Donnison,Mariecia D Fraser
Iain S Donnison
Grassland agriculture is experiencing a number of threats including declining profitability and loss of area to other land uses including expansion of the built environment as well as from cropland and forestry. The use of grassland as a na...
A new emphasis on root traits for perennial grass and legume varieties with environmental and ecological benefits [0.03%]
具有环境和生态效益的多年生牧草和豆类新品系根系性状的新重点研究
Athole H Marshall,Rosemary P Collins,Mike W Humphreys et al.
Athole H Marshall et al.
Grasslands cover a significant proportion of the agricultural land within the UK and across the EU, providing a relatively cheap source of feed for ruminants and supporting the production of meat, wool and milk from grazing animals. Deliver...
Peter R Shewry,Sandra J Hey
Peter R Shewry
Wheat is the most important staple crop in temperate zones and is in increasing demand in countries undergoing urbanization and industrialization. In addition to being a major source of starch and energy, wheat also provides substantial amo...
Alternate wetting and drying irrigation maintained rice yields despite half the irrigation volume, but is currently unlikely to be adopted by smallholder lowland rice farmers in Nepal [0.03%]
轮作灌溉虽能维持稻米产量却目前不太可能被尼泊尔的低地水稻小农户所采纳
Katharine R Howell,Pitambar Shrestha,Ian C Dodd
Katharine R Howell
Alternate wetting and drying (AWD) irrigation can save water while maintaining rice yields, but in some countries its adoption by farmers remains limited. Key knowledge gaps include the effect of AWD on early vegetative vigor and its relati...
Ian Mackay,Eric Ober,John Hickey
Ian Mackay
GplusE is a strategy for genomic selection in which the accuracy of assessment in the reference population for a primary trait such as yield is increased by the incorporation of data from high- throughput field phenotyping platforms. This i...