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Preliminary estimates suggested that maize contributed 30% of the toal food biomass consumed by the birds during the post-breeding roosting phase, and...

Above-ground parts of maize and Typha angustifolia ecosystems contained 2.8 and 4.4 µc ⁹⁰Sr/ha, amounts similar to those found in pastures where most ...

Neonicotinoid insecticides are routinely used as seed treatments on most grain and oilseed crops in the USA, yet the extent and likelihood of spread o...

1. Intercropping, the practice of growing two or more crops in close association, is attracting increasing interest in developed countries, primarily ...

In farmland biodiversity, a potential risk to the larvae of non-target Lepidoptera from genetically modified (GM) Bt-maize expressing insecticidal Cry...

Retention of crop biomass is widely recommended to improve soil organic carbon (SOC). However, the magnitude of contribution of above-ground residues ...

Comparisons were made of three micrometeorological models which simulated daily rates of photosynthesis and transpiration in a maize crop. A complete ...

Young plants of maize and cotton grown in sand culture were kept at 1 site either during the day or night, and placed during the remainder of each day...

Comparisons made over a wide range of soil matric potentials showed minimum resistance of 0.5 s/cm for cotton and 1.0 s/cm for maize. Readings made in...

Overnight respiration losses of whole plants were measured in a young maize crop grown in the humid tropic zone of Western Nigeria. In an older crop, ...