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Modelling impacts of climate change on arable crop diseases: progress, challenges and applications.
(2016-08-01)
Combining climate change, crop growth and crop disease models to predict impacts of climate change on crop diseases can guide planning of climate change adaptation strategies to ensure future food security. This review ...
Assessing on-farm productivity of Miscanthus crops by combining soil mapping, yield modelling and remote sensing
(2016-02-29)
Biomass from agricultural land is a key component of any sustainable bioenergy strategy, and 2nd generation, ligno-cellulosic feedstocks are part of the UK government policy to meet the target of reduced CO2 emission. ...
Can crop disease control cope with climate change?
(2014-12-01)
Crop yields need to increase by at least 70% over the next 35 years in order to meet the global demands for food due to the increasing population and changing dietary preferences towards meat and dairy products in developing ...
Predicting timing of release of ascospores of Leptosphaeria spp. to improve control of phoma stem canker on oilseed rape in the UK
(2014-06)
Phoma stem canker is an economically damaging disease of oilseed rape crops, causing an annual loss estimated at more than £87M in the UK at a price of £390/t. It is caused by two related pathogens: Leptosphaeria maculans ...
Assessing quantitative resistance against Leptosphaeria maculans (phoma stem canker) in Brassica napus (oilseed rape) in young plants : Assessing quantitative resistance to Leptosphaeria maculans
(2014-01-15)
Quantitative resistance against Leptosphaeria maculans in Brassica napus is difficult to assess in young plants due to the long period of symptomless growth of the pathogen from the appearance of leaf lesions to the ...
Development of new quantitative physiological and molecular breeding parameters based on the sugar beet vernalization intensity model.
(2013-08)
Sugar-beet crops, Beta vulgaris spp. vulgaris (L), suffer from premature bolting and flowering as a consequence of prolonged exposure to cold conditions (vernalization). This reduces crop yield and quality and could be ...
Comparative Pathogenicity and Virulence of Fusarium Species on Sugar Beet
(2012-09)
In all, 98 isolates of three Fusarium spp. (18 Fusarium oxysporum, 30 F. graminearum, and 50 Fusarium sp. nov.) obtained from sugar beet in Minnesota were characterized for pathogenicity and virulence on sugar beet in the ...
The yield gap in some sugar beet producing countries
(2012-07)
The efficiency of an arable crop production system can be expressed as the yield gap, the difference between the potential yield and the actual yield. The larger the gap, the less efficient the system. One way to assess ...