A5046612730- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Innovation, Technology, and Society
- Agricultural Practices and Plant Genetics
- Soil Management and Crop Yield
- Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Garlic and Onion Studies
- Weed Control and Herbicide Applications
- Turfgrass Adaptation and Management
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Seed Germination and Physiology
- Rabbits: Nutrition, Reproduction, Health
Organic Research Centre
2021-2024
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
2019-2020
University of Bristol
2013
Compared to sole crops, intercropping—especially of legumes and cereals—has great potential improve crop yield resource use efficiency, can provide many other ecosystem services. However, the beneficial effects intercrops are often greatly dependent on end as well specific species genotypes being co-cultivated. In addition, intercropping imposes added complexity at different levels supply chain. While need for developing has long been recognized, most cultivars market optimized cropping may...
Abstract Modern “intensive” agriculture drives the biodiversity-climate crisis but is also central to global food security. Future farming needs management approaches that maintain (or even enhance) production while reducing negative climate and biodiversity impacts. Intercrops could provide part of solution, increasing boosting with fewer inputs. However, barriers remain their wide-scale uptake, in particular tailoring intercrops local equipment, practice, environment. We analyze data from...
The selection of resilient cultivars could help stem the losses in forage production due to a changing climate. Secale strictum is wild grass with interesting potential as crop. We studied germination requirements six S. populations, representative whole species distribution range Italy and occurring under different osmotic conditions (0 MPa, −0.8 −1.0 −1.2 −1.4 MPa −1.6 MPa). Our aim was find beneficial seed traits for possible use this Different accessions domesticated cereale...
Abstract Yield gaps between organic and conventional agriculture raise concerns about future agricultural systems which should reduce external inputs face an unpredictable climate. In the UK, performance gap is especially severe for wheat that, as a result, has small shrinking acreage. production, most determinants of crop are managed at rotation level, leaves cultivar choice major decision on seasonal basis. Yet, conventionally generated recommendations might be inappropriate to farms....