Other articles on the topic Plant production
Adaptable and High-Yielding: Multispecies Mixtures Make Sown Grasslands Climate-Change-Proof
Mixtures of several forage-plant species systematically increase yields with lower fertiliser input. Higher temperatures enhance the benefits of these mixtures, making them a key component of climate-change adaptation.
Alternative Plant Protection in Arable and Vegetable Crops: Where Do Things Stand?
A recently published paper by Agroscope gives an overview of preventive measures and non-chemical methods of controlling weeds, diseases and pests in arable farming and field vegetable cultivation.
Sorting the meadow: Genetic methods to separate species and cultivars
Permanent grasslands consist of multiple species and cultivars, whose compositions change over time. Identifying such changes visually is laborious at species level and impossible at cultivar level. Two DNA-based methods were tested for this purpose.
