Maladaptation in cereal crop landraces following a soot-producing climate catastrophe.

Aerosol-producing global catastrophes such as nuclear war, super-volcano eruption, or asteroid strike, although rare, pose a serious threat to human survival. Light-absorbing aerosols would sharply reduce temperature and solar radiation reaching the earth's surface, decreasing crop productivity including for locally adapted traditional crop varieties, i.e.

Organic fertility inputs synergistically increase denitrification-derived nitrous oxide emissions in agroecosystems.

Soil fertility in organic agriculture relies on microbial cycling of nutrient inputs from legume cover crops and animal manure. However, large quantities of labile carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) in these amendments may promote the production and emission of nitrous oxide (N O) from soils. Better ecological understanding of the N O emission controls may lead to new management strategies to reduce these emissions.

Cover crops and drought: Maize ecophysiology and yield dataset.

This dataset supports the research paper "Cover crop effects on maize drought stress and yield" by Hunter et al. [1]. Data is provided on ecophysiological and yield measurements of maize grown following five functionally diverse cover crop treatments.

Can Crop Models Identify Critical Gaps in Genetics, Environment, and Management Interactions?

Increasing food demand under climate change constraints may challenge and strain agricultural systems. The use of crop models to assess genotypes performance across diverse target environments and management practices, i.e.