Publications
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Understanding plant-pathogen interactions in Septoria tritici blotch infection of cereals
(2021)
Zymoseptoria is a major fungal pathogen of wheat, responsible for the Septoria Tritici Blotch (STB) disease. Recently, STB has been the subject of intensive molecular studies. Notably, massive transcriptomic analyses have ...
Achievements in breeding cereals with durable disease resistance in Northwest Europe
(2021)
Breeding cereals in Northwest Europe for durable resistance has made an important contribution to control of almost all economically significant diseases and pests of wheat, barley and oats. Durable resistance to fungal ...
Advances in biostimulants as an integrated pest management tool in horticulture
(2021)
This chapter covers the definition of biostimulants, brief summary of various categories, and how they are used for promoting plant growth, building soil structure, imparting stress tolerance, and contribute to pest and ...
Genetic factors affecting the composition and quality of cow’s milk
(2021)
This chapter reviews the genetic factors affecting the composition and quality of cow's milk. It starts by discussing how different breeds of cattle can affect the composition of milk. The chapter then goes on to examine ...
Advances in mechanical weed control technologies
(2021)
Mechanical weed control can be grouped into three categories: full-width cultivators, inter-row cultivators and intra-row cultivators. This chapter will highlight the most recent and relevant advances within each category. ...
Development and scale-up of bioprotectants to keep staple foods safe from aflatoxin contamination in Africa
(2022)
Aflatoxins pose a significant public health risk, decrease productivity and profitability and hamper trade. To minimize aflatoxin contamination a biocontrol technology based on atoxigenic strains of Aspergillus flavus that ...
Clonostachys rosea to control plant diseases
(2022)
The fungus Clonostachys rosea was recognized as an aggressive parasite on other fungi already in the late 1950s. Research into its potential use in biological control of plant diseases soon followed. Today, there are several ...
Advances in understanding allelopathic interactions between weeds and crops
(2022)
This chapter focuses on advances in understanding allelopathic interactions between weeds and crops. In the first part, we discuss allelopathy in crop-weed interactions while the second part focuses on practical aspects ...
The role of bioprotectants for disease control in integrated crop protection approaches
(2022)
Bioprotectants have the potential to replace chemical pesticides in agricultural cropping systems and crop protection approaches. Development of new bioprotectants in combination with more restricted use of chemical crop ...
Sampling and statistics in assessment of fresh produce
(2022)
New measurement technologies are facilitating new approaches to the improvement of safety and quality in agri-food supply chains. However, measurement uncertainty and choice of sampling strategy can influence the outcomes ...
Origins and drivers of crop phenotyping
(2022)
Plant phenotyping has seen rapid recent development in methods and technologies. This chapter outlines how plant phenotyping has developed over recent decades, driven by factors such as advances in optical sensors, image ...
Creating frameworks to foster soil carbon sequestration
(2023)
Restorative land management has potential to remove atmospheric carbon dioxide and store carbon in stable forms in soils contributing to climate change mitigation, healthier soils and food security supporting Paris Agreement ...
Mechanisms of soil organic carbon sequestration and implications for management
(2023)
Organic carbon sequestration is delineated from the different mechanisms underlying the storage of organic matter in mineral soils. The scene is set with definitions of the major terms within the complex of organic matter ...
Agriculture practices to improve soil carbon storage in upland soil
(2023)
Increasing carbon storage in soils is one way of mitigating climate change. Carbon sequestration in agricultural soils through improved management is particularly interesting, because of low costs and technical readiness. ...
Advances in measuring soil organic carbon stocks and dynamics at the profile scale
(2023)
Accurate estimation of soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks and dynamics along the soil profile is challenging due to the immense diversity and complexity of soils leading to the spatio-temporal variability of the parameters ...
Understanding the value of and reasoning behind farmer adoption of carbon centric practices
(2023)
Understanding how to promote farmers’ use of carbon (C) centric practices known to increase soil C sequestration is needed to design information systems and orient policy, investment and environmental markets. Farmers ...
Considerations with water for turfgrass in arid environments
(2023)
Golf course managers in arid environments must manage every drop of water like it is their last. Water restrictions continue to tighten and water costs are increasing exponentially in many areas. While superintendents in ...
Considerations with soil testing in turfgrass
(2023)
Soil testing can be a valuable method to help turfgrass managers make fertilizer decisions and choosing the most appropriate soil test extractant is key. This depends on soil properties and the availability of correlation ...
Applying population-based threshold models to quantify and improve seed quality attributes
(2022)
Achieving rapid and uniform stand establishment in crops requires a combination of high-quality seeds and appropriate environmental conditions. In particular, temperature and soil moisture (or water potential) are the major ...
Advances in insect pest and disease monitoring and forecasting in horticulture
(2022)
Pest monitoring in horticulture is developing technologically to reduce time and labor needed for sampling and to produce more accurate pest predictions. New ways of detecting pests based on selective e-traps, e-noses, ...