Niroula, Sundar Cai, Ximing McIsaac, Gregory
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Environmental Research Letters
The projected near-future climate (2031–2059) of wetter springs and drier summers may negatively affect agricultural production in the US Midwest, mostly through reduced aeration of the root zone due to excess soil water and frequent loss of nutrients such as nitrate (NO3-N) and total phosphorus. Several agricultural adaptations—such as adding tile...
Silva, Mariana Bocchi da Camargos, Liliane Santos de Teixeira Filho, Marcelo Carvalho Minhoto... Souza, Lucas Anjos Coscione, Aline Renée Lavres, José Abreu-Junior, Cassio Hamilton He, Zhenli Zhao, Fengliang Jani, Arun Dilipkumar
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Frontiers in Plant Science
Introduction and aims In the context of increasing population and decreasing soil fertility, food security is one of humanity’s greatest challenges. Large amounts of waste, such as sewage sludge, are produced annually, with their final disposal causing environmental pollution and hazards to human health. Sludge has high amounts of nitrogen (N), and...
Silva, Erin M. Wezel, Alexander Stafford, Caley Brives, Jeanne Bosseler, Nathan Cecchinato, Nicole Cossement, Camille Ranaldo, Marzia Broome, Megan
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Introduction The transformation of our food system towards a more resilient agroecological framework is one of the most pressing needs faced by our global community. Understanding the use of multiple conservation practices is important in the development of research, education, and policy to accelerate their more widespread integration of into farm...
Alaryan, Maryam M Zeng, Yuan Fulladolsa, Ana Cristina Charkowski, Amy O
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Plant disease
Spongospora subterranea is a soilborne plasmodiophorid that causes powdery scab and root gall formation in potato. In this study, 18 cover crops suitable for use in dry, high-altitude potato production regions were assessed in potting mix trials to determine whether these cover crops altered S. subterranea population levels. Although S. subterranea...
Singh, Surendra Jagadamma, Sindhu Yoder, Daniel Yin, Xinhua Walker, Forbes
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Frontiers in Soil Science
Introduction Promoting sustainable crop production is enhanced by an effective method to assess soil health. However, soil health assessment is challenging due to multiple interactions among dynamic soil properties (i.e., soil health indicators) across management practices and agroecological regions. We tested several currently popular soil health ...
Neupane, Kamal Yan, Guiping
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Plant disease
Nonhost or poor host cover crops can provide an alternative method for nematode management. A total of 25 cover crop species/cultivars, along with three controls were evaluated in greenhouse experiments for their host suitability to the root-lesion nematode Pratylenchus penetrans. Trials were conducted in a completely randomized design using nemato...
Berriel, Verónica Perdomo, Carlos H.
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Frontiers in Agronomy
Cover crops can increase agricultural sustainability by protecting soil from erosion, increasing biodiversity, and symbiotically incorporating fixed nitrogen (N) into the soil. Nowadays, however, in Uruguay mostly grasses are planted in autumn to protect the soil from erosion. Another option is to study tropical legumes’ performance as cover crops,...
Myers, Robert L. Wilson, Kelly R.
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
The SARE/CTIC national farmer survey has assessed farmer experiences and perceptions about cover crops six times from early 2013 to early 2020. In most years, approximately 2,000 farmers responded to the survey questions, a majority of which were cover crop adopters, but a significant fraction (7% to 16%) were non-adopters: farmers not yet using co...
Malone, Robert W Radke, Anna Herbstritt, Steph Wu, Huaiqing Qi, Zhiming Emmett, Bryan D Helmers, Matthew J Schulte, Lisa A Feyereisen, Gary W O’Brien, Peter L
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Environmental Research Letters
Cover crops (CCs) can reduce nitrogen (N) loss to subsurface drainage and can be reimagined as bioenergy crops for renewable natural gas production and carbon (C) benefits (fossil fuel substitution and C storage). Little information is available on the large-scale adoption of winter rye for these purposes. To investigate the impacts in the North Ce...
Qian, Ning Feng, Cailian Cheng, Yapu Zhang, Guozhen Bhadauria, Vijai Lu, Xunli Zhao, Wensheng
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Phytopathology
Astragalus sinicus is a versatile legume crop, primarily utilized as a green manure in China. During 2020 and 2021, A. sinicus plants exhibiting dark brown or reddish-brown lesions or spots on leaves and stems were collected from fields in the Henan, Sichuan, and Guangxi provinces of China. Sixteen single-spore isolates were isolated from the infec...
