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Effect of Cultivation Practices on Crop Yield and Quality
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Effect of Cultivation Practices on Crop Yield and Quality

A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Production".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 February 2025 | Viewed by 1890

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Dr. Jan Buczek

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Department of Crop Production, University of Rzeszow, Zelwerowicza 4 St., 35-601 Rzeszow, Poland
Interests: farming systems; tillage systems; fertilization; yield; protein fractions; nutrients; hybrid varieties; cereals
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Dear Colleagues,

Crop production is essential for both plant and animal food production. Therefore, the demand for plant raw materials is expected to continue to increase, especially in terms of the need to feed the ever-growing population. However, the effects associated with climate change are already reducing crop yields and food quality. On the other hand, over-intensification of crop production has become a major challenge for sustainable agriculture.

Studies on improving crop-cultivation practices, such as enhancing soil fertility, optimizing fertilizer management, using appropriate tillage systems, integrated pest management, crop rotation, and improved cultivars in crop production, can increase the total yield and improve crop quality. It is also important to develop appropriate cultivation practices that protect the production potential of the environment and reduce the scale of its degradation. Abiotic stresses, such as long-term exposure to drought or unstable temperatures caused by global warming during the growing season, can also significantly reduce crop yield and quality.

In this Special Issue, we welcome original research, recent studies, reviews, and achievements on the impact of improving various cultivation practices used in crop production technologies, shaping their yield and quality, which is the main goal of sustainable crop production.

We can work together to achieve this goal through genetic advances, precision agriculture, appropriate tillage systems, sustainable fertilization, crop protection practices, or improved irrigation methods.

Dr. Jan Buczek
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • crops yield and quality
  • cultivation practice
  • farming systems
  • tillage systems
  • production technology
  • crop rotation
  • fertilization and plant protection
  • precision agriculture
  • varietal progress

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The Effect of Tillage Systems and Weed Control Methods on Grain Yield and Gluten Protein Compositional and Content-Related Changes in Hybrid Bread Wheat
by Jan Buczek
Agriculture 2024, 14(9), 1558; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14091558 - 9 Sep 2024
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The use of simplified tillage systems and weed control methods using reduced herbicide doses in wheat production technology is one of the basic requirements of sustainable agriculture in terms of obtaining high-quality grain of this species. The aim of three-year field studies was [...] Read more.
The use of simplified tillage systems and weed control methods using reduced herbicide doses in wheat production technology is one of the basic requirements of sustainable agriculture in terms of obtaining high-quality grain of this species. The aim of three-year field studies was to determine the yield and quality characteristics of hybrid wheat grain depending on two tillage systems (CT and RT) and four weed control methods: mechanical (M) and mechanical–chemical, using recommended herbicide doses (MH100) and doses reduced by 25 and 50% (MH75, MH50). A comparable grain yield, number of grains per spike, weight of one thousand wheat grains, and amount of gluten and ω gliadin subunits (GLI) were obtained in the RT and CT systems. The CT system increased protein content (by 15.2 g kg−1) and the increase in the sum of gluten protein fractions was higher for glutenins (GLU) and their LMW and HMW subunits (from 20.9 to 29.8%). The application of the method with the recommended herbicide dose (MH100), compared to M and MH50, resulted in an increase in grain yield by 0.89 and 1.04 t ha−1, respectively, as well as in the sum of GLI (by 8.4 and 12.3%) and GLU (by 13.7 and 25.3%). The application of the herbicide dose reduced by 25% (MH75) compared to the recommended dose (MH100), especially in the RT system, did not cause a significant decrease in protein content and the amount of GLI and GLU, while reducing grain yield (by 0.26 t ha−1) and the amount of gluten (by 3.1%). Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Effect of Cultivation Practices on Crop Yield and Quality)
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Exploiting the Yield Potential of Spring Barley in Poland: The Roles of Crop Rotation, Cultivar, and Plant Protection
by Marta K. Kostrzewska and Magdalena Jastrzębska
Agriculture 2024, 14(8), 1355; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14081355 - 13 Aug 2024
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The need to better exploit crop yield potential through agronomic practices is driven by the necessity to feed a growing population in a changing climate. In this regard, cereals, including barley, represent strategic crops. Barley grain yield in Poland is comparable to the [...] Read more.
The need to better exploit crop yield potential through agronomic practices is driven by the necessity to feed a growing population in a changing climate. In this regard, cereals, including barley, represent strategic crops. Barley grain yield in Poland is comparable to the European average. Under good habitat and agronomic conditions, it can exceed the average. The effects of cropping system (continuous cropping, CC; crop rotation, CR), cultivar (Radek, Skald), plant protection level (control treatment, CT; herbicide, H; herbicide and fungicide, HF), and the interactions among these factors on spring barley yield were evaluated in northeast Poland in 2017–2022. Growing spring barley in the CR system promoted higher yields compared to the CC system due to increased spike density and 1000-grain weight (TGW). Skald, with a higher TGW, yielded more than Radek. H treatment increased barley yield by improving the spike density and TGW, while fungicide inclusion (HF) contributed to further yield increase by improving the TGW. The interaction of CR and HF practices contributed to the greatest realization of the yield potential of both cultivars. The study confirmed the strong contribution of inter-annual weather variability in modifying the effects of cropping system, cultivar, and plant protection strategy on barley yield. Full article
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<p>The arrangement of continuous cropping (CC) and crop rotation (CR) fields in the Bałcyny experiment on 19 July 2022.</p> Full article ">Figure 2
<p>The arrangement of cultivars and plant protection levels in a single field of spring barley grown in continuous cropping or crop rotation in the experiment in Bałcyny in 2017–2022. CT—plots with no herbicide or fungicide treatments; H—plots with herbicide application; HF—plots with the application of herbicide and fungicide.</p> Full article ">Figure 3
<p>Effects of the interactions of cropping system × plant protection (<b>a</b>), cropping system × year (<b>b</b>), cultivar × year (<b>c</b>), and plant protection × year (<b>d</b>) on spring barley yield (means and standard errors). Different letters indicate significant differences at <span class="html-italic">p</span> &lt; 0.05.</p> Full article ">Figure 4
<p>Effect of the interaction of cultivar × plant protection on spike density of spring barley (means and standard errors); different letters indicate significant differences at <span class="html-italic">p</span> &lt; 0.05.</p> Full article ">Figure 5
<p>Effect of the interactions of cropping system × cultivar (<b>a</b>), cropping system × plant protection (<b>b</b>), cultivar × plant protection (<b>c</b>), and cultivar × year (<b>d</b>) on 1000-grain weight of spring barley (means and standard errors). Different letters indicate significant differences at <span class="html-italic">p</span> &lt; 0.05.</p> Full article ">Figure 5 Cont.
<p>Effect of the interactions of cropping system × cultivar (<b>a</b>), cropping system × plant protection (<b>b</b>), cultivar × plant protection (<b>c</b>), and cultivar × year (<b>d</b>) on 1000-grain weight of spring barley (means and standard errors). Different letters indicate significant differences at <span class="html-italic">p</span> &lt; 0.05.</p> Full article ">
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