Context: Rice double cropping in irrigated systems is essential for increasing rice production and ensuring food security in West Africa. Rice breeding programs must develop genotypes that are expected to perform well either across wet and dry seasons or for a specific season. Objective: This study aimed to investigate the consistency of genotypic ...
Climate change is expected to have important consequences for sugarcane production due to global warming, changes in precipitation patterns, and changes in the frequency of extreme weather events. A key application of crop growth simulation models is to help understand and predict the effects of and interactions between, climate, soil, and manageme...
Food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa is partly due to low staple crop yields, resulting from poor soil fertility and low nutrient inputs. Integrated soil fertility management (ISFM), which includes the combined use of mineral and organic fertilizers, can contribute to increasing yields and sustaining soil organic carbon (SOC) in the long term. Soi...
Perennial cropping systems begin their cycles with a pluriannual immature period. Appropriate management, including the inter-rows, is essential for the long-term viability, and productivity of the plantation while reducing the length of the unproductive period. Despite its significant economic and environmental impacts, the immature period is stil...
Hevea brasiliensis, a natural rubber producing species, is widely cultivated due to its high rubber yield potential. Natural rubber is synthesised in the rubber particles of laticifers. Latex diagnosis (LD) was established to characterise the physiological state of the laticiferous system by measuring its physiological parameters, i.e., sucrose, in...
Weeds are a major threat in tropical regions where climate conditions favor their growth and development. This is particularly true in low-input rice-based cropping systems in the Malagasy highlands, where weed management is mainly done by manual removal. Crop rotation is often promoted as an efficient way to control weed infestations, while the ro...
Understanding crop domestication provides a basis for ongoing genetic improvement of crops, especially in the utilization of wild crop relatives as a source of new variation and may guide the domestication of new crops. The Asia Pacific region is home to most of the world's human population and is a region in which many important crops were domesti...
How could we know if agricultural development interventions make contributions to sustainable development goals (SDGs)? Genetically engineered (GE) crops are celebrated as a class of technological interventions that can realize multiple SDGs. But recent studies have revealed the gap between GE crop program goals and the approaches used to assess th...
CONTEXTE: Dans un contexte de changement climatique et de mondialisation, les régions tropicales, en particulier les outre-mer français, font face à des défis croissants en matière de protection des cultures. SPECIFICITES: Ces territoires, caractérisés par une grande diversité botanique et de microclimats, sont particulièrement vulnérables aux inva...
Background: In an environment where the adoption of improved varieties resulting from plant breeding programs is limited, it is essential to identify end-user preferences beforehand. A participatory survey was conducted in eight localities in Korhogo and Bouaké regions (central and northern Cote d'Ivoire respectively) to identify producers' prefere...
