The canola crop (Brassica napus L.) has great economic importance, due to the high quality of its oil and high protein content in its grains. As its cultivation takes place in winter, there are extensive idle areas of ...

Linear relationships help in the selection of characters of agronomic interest and can be useful in understanding the factors within the agronomic management of corn, such as cultivation environment, sowing time and ...

Carrying out studies of yield potential (Yp), water-limited yield potential (Yw) and yield gaps (Yg) on a local scale allows us to understand the peculiarities and limitations of the interaction between genetics, management, ...

The objective of this study was to analyze the quality of sweet sorghum seeds and their biochemical and physiological relationships by the tests of electrical conductivity, accelerated aging and activity of ezymes. Four ...

Harvesting the apple at the correct maturity stage for long-term storage is becoming more and more difficult, especially due to the lack of manual labor. Thereby, the development of storage techniques that allows the storage ...

The most widely way used to store apples is the controlled atmosphere (CA), were the oxygen is reduced, but this is far above the lower oxygen limit (LOL) tolerated by the fruit. The use of technologies that allow the ...

The maize is one of the most important cereal grown worldwide. With the advancement of acreage and monoculture, the emergence of several diseases is well known, which has generated losses of quality and productivity of ...

Late blight in the most important disease of potato crop and it may cause major yield losses in a matter of a few days. The use of forecast modls or systems to predict diseases has the potential of reducing the number of ...

The control of asian soybean rust depends on the application of fungicides at the right time. The use of forecasting systems is an important tool in the decision-making process. This work aims to estimate a prediction ...

Diseases are limiting factors for the expression of the high yield potential of rice cultivars in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Blast (Pyricularia oryzae) is considered the main disease, causing damage to yield and milling ...