Six five-year crop rotation types were identified: cereal species monoculture, cereal monoculture, rotation with a break-crop, diverse crop rotation, perennial, non-permanent grassland rotation and environmental fallow rotation.
Little outside aid has gone to bolstering crop production of these diverse indigenous crops, even though Ethiopia was recognized as a global center for such crop diversity more than three quarters of a century ago by the great food geographer Nikolay Vavilov.
This crop displays diverse color variation in its fruit (i.e., yellow, tangerine, orange, orange-red, and red) with different carotenoid profiles.
People in small settlements typically plant several crops in diverse and specific environments to minimize the danger of famine in case of flood, drought, pests, or other natural stressors.
Although banana is one of the world's most important edible crops, comprehensive diverse transcriptome datasets, complementary to a whole genome reference sequence, are required for use in accelerated molecular-based breeding in this genus.
As we try to produce high-yielding crops in diverse conditions, our knowledge of root growth behaviors and their modulation by external cues can help us in the endeavor.
We also plan to integrate new data sets, such as microarray data on gene expression under different abiotic stresses, phylogenetic relationships to homologous genes from diverse crop species and QTLs from other major crop models such as corn, sorghum and Brassica.
The contrary was observed, namely because diverse crop rotations contained a higher share of crops which are more demanding in terms of nitrogen and of plant protection.
In an intensively used agricultural landscape, as it is the case in Germany, good management and farming practices and diverse crop rotation cycles are of importance, and the introduction of new energy crops into the existing crop rotation cycles can be beneficial for ecological reasons [3, 4].
Recently, increased incidence of the pathogen on diverse crop species has been reported worldwide [ 12- 14], highlighting the importance of this disease to crop production in drought prone regions.
