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Super high-density olive orchard system affects the main olive crop pests 超高密度橄榄园系统对橄榄作物主要害虫的影响

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Italian Journal of Agronomy Pub Date : 2024-05-08 DOI: 10.4081/ija.2024.2220

S. Landi, I. Cutino, S. Simoni, S. Simoncini, C. Benvenuti, F. Pennacchio, F. Binazzi, S. Guidi, D. Goggioli, F. Tarchi, P. Roversi, E. Gargani

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Nutrient-coated urea mitigates deleterious impacts of salinity and supports wheat performance by enhancing antioxidant activities, photosynthetic performance and nitrogen use efficiency 营养包衣尿素可减轻盐分的有害影响，并通过提高抗氧化活性、光合作用性能和氮利用效率来提高小麦的产量

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Italian Journal of Agronomy Pub Date : 2024-05-08 DOI: 10.4081/ija.2024.2219

M. U. Chattha, Fiza Fatima, I. Khan, Li Daji, M. B. Chattha, Adnan Rasheed, Rehab O. Elnour, Tahani Y. A. Asseri, Mohamed Hashem, H. Alhaithloul, M. Hassan, Sameer H. Qari

{"title":"Nutrient-coated urea mitigates deleterious impacts of salinity and supports wheat performance by enhancing antioxidant activities, photosynthetic performance and nitrogen use efficiency","authors":"M. U. Chattha, Fiza Fatima, I. Khan, Li Daji, M. B. Chattha, Adnan Rasheed, Rehab O. Elnour, Tahani Y. A. Asseri, Mohamed Hashem, H. Alhaithloul, M. Hassan, Sameer H. Qari","doi":"10.4081/ija.2024.2219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4081/ija.2024.2219","url":null,"abstract":"Soil salinization has increased over recent years and is negatively affecting crop productivity. Nutrient application is an effective strategy to improve abiotic stress tolerance in crops. The application of coated fertilizers has emerged as an excellent approach to mitigate the adverse impacts of soil salinity. Therefore, the present study was conducted to determine the effects of zinc and sulfur coated urea on the performance of wheat growing under saline conditions. The study comprised of diverse salinity stress levels; 0, 6 and 12 dS m-1, cross combined with normal urea (NU), zinc coated urea (ZCU) and sulfur coated urea (SCU). Salinity stress reduced wheat yield by impairing leaf water status, reducing photosynthetic pigments, osmolytes accumulation, potassium (K) and nitrogen (N) uptake while increasing sodium (Na) and chloride (Cl) uptake and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), malondialdehyde (MDA) and electrolyte leakage (EL) accumulation. The application of ZCU increased the wheat yield by enhancing photosynthetic pigments, leaf water status, antioxidant activities, osmolytes accumulation, and reducing H2O2, MDA and EL accumulation. Furthermore, the significant increase in growth and yield of wheat with ZCU and SCU was also linked with improved K and N uptake, higher nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) and reduced Na and Cl concentration. Thus, the application of ZCU could be an effective approach to improve wheat productivity under saline conditions.","PeriodicalId":14618,"journal":{"name":"Italian Journal of Agronomy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140999993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Participatory ecodesign of crop management based on Life Cycle Assessment: an approach to inform the strategy of a Protected Denomination of Origin. A case study in viticulture 基于生命周期评估的参与式作物管理生态设计：为原产地名称保护战略提供信息的方法。葡萄栽培案例研究

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Italian Journal of Agronomy Pub Date : 2024-04-08 DOI: 10.4081/ija.2023.2217

Christel Renaud-Gentié, Cécile Grémy-Gros, Séverine Julien, Antoine Giudicelli

{"title":"Participatory ecodesign of crop management based on Life Cycle Assessment: an approach to inform the strategy of a Protected Denomination of Origin. A case study in viticulture","authors":"Christel Renaud-Gentié, Cécile Grémy-Gros, Séverine Julien, Antoine Giudicelli","doi":"10.4081/ija.2023.2217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4081/ija.2023.2217","url":null,"abstract":"Since the context on environmental issues is challenging, the Cognac protected denomination of origin (PDO) adopted life cycle assessment (LCA) to inform its environmental strategy, initially focusing on vineyard soil management. This study developed a participatory eco-design approach involving stakeholders to inform the PDOs’ strategy for transitioning to less impactful crop management practices. It did this by drawing on literature that emphasises the use of participatory design, serious games, and LCA to foster knowledge sharing, engagement, and sustainability assessment. The approach that was put to the test in the Cognac PDO involved 17 elected officials with varying levels of experience. The participants used the serious game known as Vitigame (a game done for participatory ecodesign in viticulture) to ecodesign a soil management and fertilisation pathway for 2030, with the process guided by the results of the LCA. Exchange dynamics, LCA results, and participant feedback were analysed. The study revealed diverse dynamics and efficient ecodesign strategies among the participant groups, which resulted in a reduction of environmental impacts by up to 51% and raised new questions for the territory. The diversity of participants presented challenges, highlighting the need to improve LCA knowledge sharing. The workshop’s results could inform the PDO’s strategic planning. The interest of this innovative process including a serious game was confirmed, suggesting potential applications to other viticultural PDOs and adaptability to diverse sectors.","PeriodicalId":14618,"journal":{"name":"Italian Journal of Agronomy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140732284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench.) as an emerging companion crop in annual cropping systems: a systematic review 荞麦（Fagopyrum esculentum Moench.）

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Italian Journal of Agronomy Pub Date : 2024-04-05 DOI: 10.4081/ija.2024.2218

Alessandra Virili, Daniel Marusig, Gemini Delle Vedove, Elisa Marraccini

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Co-designing innovative cropping systems with stakeholders 与利益攸关方共同设计创新型种植系统

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Italian Journal of Agronomy Pub Date : 2024-03-19 DOI: 10.4081/ija.2023.2213

Elisa Marraccini, Nicola Silvestri, Julie Ingram

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A comparison of soil water infiltration models of moistube irrigation 湿润管灌溉的土壤水渗透模型比较

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Italian Journal of Agronomy Pub Date : 2024-03-06 DOI: 10.4081/ija.2024.2216

Binnan Li, Lixia Shen, Shuhui Liu

{"title":"A comparison of soil water infiltration models of moistube irrigation","authors":"Binnan Li, Lixia Shen, Shuhui Liu","doi":"10.4081/ija.2024.2216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4081/ija.2024.2216","url":null,"abstract":"As a water-saving method, moistube irrigation has been widely used. To ensure the effectiveness of moistube irrigation the development of an infiltration prediction model under moistube irrigation based on the interaction of multiple factors is required. In this paper, soil water infiltration tests with different bulk densities (1.2 g/cm³, 1.3 g/cm³, and 1.4 g/cm³) and textures (loamy sand, sandy loam, and clay loam) under different pressure heads (1m, 1.5m, and 2m) were designed, and the test data were analyzed by gray correlation theory. The pressure head, bulk density, clay content, silt content, sand content, and initial water content were determined as input variables, and the model structure was composed with two parameters of Kostiakov's model as output variables. Then, the genetic algorithm was used to optimize the back propagation neural network and the particle swarm algorithm to optimize the support vector machine. The soil moisture prediction model under moistube irrigation was established, finally the model was compared and analyzed. The results showed that the consistency effect of the two models was good. However, compared with the BP neural network prediction model optimized by genetic algorithm, the particle swarm algorithm optimized the support vector machine based moistube irrigation prediction model had higher accuracy. The results of this experiment can provide theoretical support for the exploration and modelling prediction of soil water infiltration under moistube irrigation.","PeriodicalId":14618,"journal":{"name":"Italian Journal of Agronomy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140262592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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On-farm experimentation in agronomic research: an Italian perspective 农艺研究中的农场试验：意大利的视角

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Italian Journal of Agronomy Pub Date : 2024-02-29 DOI: 10.4081/ija.2023.2215

V. Giannini, Elisa Marraccini

{"title":"On-farm experimentation in agronomic research: an Italian perspective","authors":"V. Giannini, Elisa Marraccini","doi":"10.4081/ija.2023.2215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4081/ija.2023.2215","url":null,"abstract":"On-farm experimentation (OFE) renovates agronomic research since it brings researchers out of their experimental field stations to the farms, shaping the direction of research in collaboration with farmers. In the context of increasing interest in OFE, this paper aims to map the current picture of agronomic research articles published on OFE in Italy. We observe that few articles are published on OFE in Italy. Moreover, among these articles, only a few explicitly mentioned farmers’ opinions or involvement, while none of them mentioned digital technologies as enablers of OFE. Therefore, we started a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis to identify the main weaknesses and threats limiting OFE developing in Italy, along with the opportunities and strengths enabling OFE development. Despite the time-consuming research underpinning OFE, the lack of recognition by the academic community, the risk of not robust statistic, and difficulties in publishing, there are a series of opportunities emerging at the national level for which the implementation of OFE could be crucial to properly target the scopes set by the EU concerning agricultural research and innovation.","PeriodicalId":14618,"journal":{"name":"Italian Journal of Agronomy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140410991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How to intensify collaboration in a participatory modelling process to collectively design and evaluate new farming systems 如何在参与式建模过程中加强合作，共同设计和评估新的耕作制度

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Italian Journal of Agronomy Pub Date : 2024-02-26 DOI: 10.4081/ija.2023.2214

J. Barbier, Caroline Tardivo, S. Delmotte, Roberto Cittadini, Laure Hossard, Christophe Le Page

{"title":"How to intensify collaboration in a participatory modelling process to collectively design and evaluate new farming systems","authors":"J. Barbier, Caroline Tardivo, S. Delmotte, Roberto Cittadini, Laure Hossard, Christophe Le Page","doi":"10.4081/ija.2023.2214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4081/ija.2023.2214","url":null,"abstract":"Agricultural research is expected to foster agro-ecological transitions. For that purpose, methodologies of participative integrated assessment of new farming and cropping systems are requested. However, the territory level and the stakeholders’ participation are often not sufficiently embraced. Based on the companion modeling approach, a group of researchers from different disciplines experimented an approach where researchers and stakeholders collaborated intensively all along the process of design and use of the model. The researchers selected a small rural area where agriculture plays a major role (Valensole plateau, south of France) and where they had not carried out any investigation before. In such conditions, we argue that the interactions between researchers and stakeholders involved in the co-design from scratch of a simulation model stimulate a collective reflection about the sustainability of current and alternative farming systems. This article describes the different phases of the process from stakeholders’ enrolment until the final discussion of the results provided by the model. It underlines the conditions that favored the emergence of consensus and the production of a new set of knowledge. It emphasizes how the discordances between data and disagreements between stakeholders were used to stimulate collective debates and underlines the role played by the model. Finally, the article discusses the drawbacks that the approach did not overcome.","PeriodicalId":14618,"journal":{"name":"Italian Journal of Agronomy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140429229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Valorization of wheat production in marginal areas: farmer-centric experimentation for variety choice and evolutionary population development 边缘地区小麦生产的价值评估：以农民为中心的品种选择和种群进化发展试验

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Italian Journal of Agronomy Pub Date : 2024-02-13 DOI: 10.4081/ija.2023.2210

S. Bosi, Lorenzo Negri, Antonio Fakaros, Giulia Oliveti, Giovanni Dinelli

{"title":"Valorization of wheat production in marginal areas: farmer-centric experimentation for variety choice and evolutionary population development","authors":"S. Bosi, Lorenzo Negri, Antonio Fakaros, Giulia Oliveti, Giovanni Dinelli","doi":"10.4081/ija.2023.2210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4081/ija.2023.2210","url":null,"abstract":"In Italy, from 2000 to 2010, 58% of farms in mountain areas were abandoned leading to a 33% decrease in available land for agriculture. This research aimed to restore value and competitiveness to the Apennine area, by proposing a balanced and sustainable agriculture model. Following the needs of farmers, underutilised cereals were selected as the ideal genetic material for the study and development of short local food supply chains. The field experiments were carried out in two organic farms located in the Emilia-Romagna Region (Italy). During two growing seasons, seven wheat genotypes, two wheat evolutionary populations and one einkorn mixture were cultivated under organic farming management. Results related to functional traits are presented along with the main agronomic and technological parameters that were determined. Several nutritional properties are included. Mean yield and stability performance over environments for each genotype were explored using the “Genotype and Genotype by Environment biplot” elaboration. Considering yield performances, “Benco” was closer to the ‘ideal’ genotype. All the results were evaluated with the farmers, who expressed their own preferences from field observations. The right coupling between environment and genotypes can discourage the abandonment of hilly and mountainous farms by enhancing the economic competitiveness of agriculture in these regions.","PeriodicalId":14618,"journal":{"name":"Italian Journal of Agronomy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139780719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A participatory approach to involve winegrowers in pesticide use reduction in viticulture in the south-western region of France 让葡萄种植者参与减少法国西南部地区葡萄种植中农药使用的参与式方法

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Italian Journal of Agronomy Pub Date : 2024-02-13 DOI: 10.4081/ija.2023.2209

Mickaël Perez, Laure Hossard, Christian Gary, Pauline Lacapelle, Marie-Hélène Robin, Aurélie Metay

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