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The current pace of crop improvement is inadequate to feed the burgeoning human population by 2050. Higher, more stable, and sustainable crop production is required against a backdrop of drought stress, which causes significant losses in crop yields. Tailoring crops for drought adaptation may hold the key to address these challenges and provide resilient production systems for future harvests.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe effects of peat burning on organic-rich agricultural soils of the Mezzano Lowland (NE Italy) were evaluated on soil profiles variously affected by smoldering. Profiles were investigated for pH, electrical conductivity, bulk density, elemental and isotopic composition of distinct carbon (and nitrogen) fractions. The results suggest that the horizons affected by carbon loss lie at depths 10-70 cm, where the highest temperatures are developed.
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- Recent research has linked traits such as genome size and ploidy level to plant invasiveness, but their direct effects on competition among similar species are not well understood.
- A common-garden experiment with 20 plant populations (both native and invasive) examined how these traits influence competition among clones, revealing that native North American clones consistently performed worse than invasives and European natives.
- Findings suggest that the competitive advantage of North American invasive clones, which were slightly larger in biomass, plays a key role in their success during early stages of invasion, while genome size and ploidy showed no significant impact on competition.