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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 ...
Status of Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) production in the worldwide and in the Republic of Serbia
(Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2017)
Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench) is pseudo-cereal, honey and medicinal plant. Buckwheat is rich in carbohydrates, protein, contains all the B complex vitamins, especially niacin. Of the minerals rich in manganese, ...
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 ...
Climate change-induced alteration in biotic environment and its effect on cereal and pseudocereal quality
(Academic Press, 2023)
Wheat (mainly common, soft wheat Triticum aestivum but also durum, hard wheat Triticum turgidum) ranks third in the global annual production of commodities. It is the world’s largest crop in terms of harvested area (FAO, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.) ...
The impact of climate change on diseases and pests of small grains and sunflowers in the Vojvodina region (Serbia)
(Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2012)
The risk of disease and pest damage to agricultural crops has increased significantly as a result of climatic changes. The climatic change has resulted in the dominance of pathogens that require higher temperatures for ...
Field management practices to produce nutritional and healthier main crops
(Academic Press, 2023)
For thousands of years, cereal grains have been a primary source for the nutrition of the human population and during the period after major crops’ domestication, agriculture radically transformed human societies worldwide. ...
Phenotyping for Root Traits
(Springer India, 2015)
Root system architecture determines crop capacity to acquire water and nutrients in the dynamic and variable soil environment. Increasing attention is paid to searching for optimal root traits to improve resource uptake ...