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Combined Organic Fertilizer and Straw Return Enhanced Summer Maize Productivity and Optimized Soil Nitrate–N distribution in Rainfed Summer Maize–Winter Wheat Rotation on the Southeast Loess Plateau
Organic fertilizer and straw return are sustainable measures for increasing crop yield and improving the soil environment. The present study...
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Meteorological Pre-warning Grade of High Temperature During Flowering Stage for Summer Maize in North China Plain
High temperatures during flowering stage affects the seed setting in maize and thereby result in significant yield penalties in recent changing...
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Maize-Maize System
Important crop** system in Pakistan, India, China, and other nations is the maize-maize crop** system. The burgeoning populations in develo**...
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The Controlling Effects of Leaf Area Index on Soil Respiration and Total Ecosystem Respiration Over Summer Maize/Winter Wheat Cropland in the Guanzhong Plain, China
Total ecosystem respiration (TER) is the major contributor to atmospheric carbon inputs. Investigating the characteristics of cropland TER is...
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Influence of maize genotypes and harvest stages on in-silo fermentation quality and nutritional value of corn silage during hot summer condition of the tropics
The aim of the experiment was to evaluate the potential of promising summer maize genotypes and optimal stage of harvesting these genotypes for...
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Dynamic simulation of photosynthate distribution parameters and biomass of summer maize under water stress
Water shortages and population surges pose notable challenges to food security. North China is an important grain base of the country, with limited...
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Optimization of canopy resistance models for estimating evapotranspiration on summer maize in a semi-arid condition of China
Accurate estimation of evapotranspiration ( ET ) is crucial for improving crop water-use efficiency and facilitating precision irrigation. The...
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Variability of photosynthetic and related traits in maize and other summer crops in a temperate humid area
Photosynthetic rate and water use efficiency (WUE) are crucial for the sustainable use of water in agriculture. Our objective was to analyze the...
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Blending loss-control and normal urea maximizes nitrogen utilization of summer maize by mitigating ammonia volatilization and nitrate leaching
AimsLoss-control urea has been shown to be an effective strategy for increasing crop yield and N use efficiency (NUE) in maize production. However,...
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Nitrogen rate effects reproductive development and grain set of summer maize by influencing fatty acid metabolism
PurposeThe developmental status of the male and female spike determines grain number (GN) per ear and yield. A better understanding of the effect of...
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Maize and Millets
Maize is an important cereal crop in India, which has the highest production and productivity in the world after rice and wheat. In India,...
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Conservation tillage as an economic and ecological farming option for Summer Maize in the oasis region of Northwest China
AimsBalancing yield and soil CO 2 emissions in crop** systems has become a focus of agricultural research. To explore effective ways to achieve the...
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Residual, direct and interaction effect of nutrient management on growth, yield, quality, and economics of fodder maize and soil nutrient balance under grain amaranth (Amaranthus hypochondriacus L.)– fodder maize [Zea mays (L.)] sequence in Inceptisols of Western India
Aiming to investigate the residual, direct and interaction effect of nutrient management on growth, yield, quality, nutrient uptake, monetary...
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Weed flora in spring maize and atrazine residues in its green fodder and silage under three maize-based rotations
Maize ( Zea mays L.) is sown for fodder and silage in the spring season (February-June) by commercial dairy farmers in northwestern India and its...
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Natural infectivity of Dalbulus maidis populations and incidence of corn stunt and virus diseases in maize over time
The aim of this study was to evaluate the natural infectivity of Dalbulus maidis with spiroplasma (corn stunt spiroplasma—CSS— Spiroplasma kunkelii ),...
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Cytoplasmic genome contributions to domestication and improvement of modern maize
BackgroundStudies on maize evolution and domestication are largely limited to the nuclear genomes, and the contribution of cytoplasmic genomes to...
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Productivity of rainfed maize as influenced by hydrogel and mulching under conventional and zero tillage in maize–wheat crop** system
An agronomy field experiment was conducted at Ram Dhan Singh Seed Farm, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, India, at 29°47' N latitude and...
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Fine map** a QTL for BYDV-PAV resistance in maize
Barley yellow dwarf (BYD) is one of the economically most important virus diseases of cereals worldwide, causing yield losses up to 80%. The means to...
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Allelopathic potentiality of Trianthema portulacastrum L. shoot extract and mulch on germination and growth of two summer weeds
Trianthema portulacastrum L. is an alien naturalized noxious summer weed belonging to Aizoaceae. Our field observations revealed that it was the...
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Monitoring Drought Tolerance Mechanisms of Sorghum and Maize Under Unevenly Distributed Precipitation
The study examines the morpho-physiological differences in leaf characteristics between two species of C4 plants: sorghum and maize. The research was...
