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Sunflower
(Springer New York, 2012)
Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) is one of the main oil crops in the world. Sunflower is a native crop in North America. It was first domesticated by the Indians who used it as food and medicine as well as body painting ...
Breeding and Genetics of Sunflower
(Elsevier Inc., 2015)
Sunflower is an annual plant. Its botanical name Helianthus comes from the Greek words helios (sun) and anthos (flower). Archaeological findings show that the American Indians were the first to cultivate sunflower in 4625 ...
Intercropping Sugar Beet with Different Agricultural Crops
(Springer Singapore, 2022)
During the recent years, sugar beet production has been declining due to multiple reasons. Low price of the sugar on the world market, high-cost production of sugar beet, changes in the agricultural policy of EU, lower ...
Insight to the current state and challenges in Aronia melanocarpa cultivation, phytochemicals, potential and applications
(Nova Science Publishers, 2017)
Aronia, also called chokeberry, is a member of the Rosaceae family. The genus is usually considered to contain two species: black chokeberry, Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Ell., and red chokeberry, Aronia arbutifolia (L.) ...
Helichrysum: the current state of cultivation, production and uses
(Nova Science Publishers, 2017)
The genus Helichrysum consists of 600 species, among which the most significant are dwarf everlast (Helichrysum arenarium) and curry plant (Helichrysum italicum). The H. arenarium spreads from the Mediterranean to Northern ...
Rheology as a tool to predict the effect of different biotic and abiotic factors on the quality of cereals and pseudocereals
(Academic Press, 2023)
Cereals represent a staple food for a majority of the world’s population and play an important role in food security and nutrition. They are the most produced crops in the world (2777 million tons in 2020), with maize, ...
Sunflower and Abiotic Stress: Genetics and Breeding for Resistance in the—Omics Era Sunflower Abiotic Stress Breeding
(Springer, Cham, 2022)
Sunflower is considered more tolerant and adaptable to abiotic stresses than many other crops. It can be successfully grown in marginal soils and in semiarid conditions. Hence, sunflower crop stands a very good chance of ...
Sunflower and climate change: Possibilities of adaptation through breeding and genomic selection
(Springer International Publishing, 2019)
Due to its ability to grow in different agroecological conditions and its moderate drought tolerance, sunflower may become the oil crop of preference in the future, especially in the light of global environmental changes. ...
Agroclimatology of oats, barley, and minor millets
(Wiley, 2018)
Among the minor coarse grains cultivated in the world, barley leads the area under cultivation, followed by oats and others. This chapter discusses growth stages, climatic requirements, and management practices of oat, ...
Potential of some neglected european annual legume crops for forage production
(Springer Netherlands, 2014)
There is a general trend of re-introducing currently neglected and underutilised crops into diverse farming systems and providing them with novel roles in contemporary agriculture, which is faced with numerous challenges. ...